1895
DOI: 10.2307/2175479
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Fichte's Conception of God

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“…Early in the Addresses, he appears to support the general view held by both the Remonstrants and the Contra-Remonstrants that God's Will is needed for regeneration: ''Only in immediate contact with God and in direct emancipation of his life from Him will he [man] find life, light and happiness'' (38). While the Contra-Remonstrants would support this position, a final clarification by Fichte appears to move him into the Remonstrant camp: ''but in any separation from the immediate contact [with God], death, darkness, and misery'' (38). The possibility that the elect could possibly fall from grace is inconceivable to a believer in the Contra-Remonstrant principle of the ''perseverance of saints.…”
Section: Support For a Remonstrant Position In The ''Addresses''mentioning
confidence: 81%
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“…Early in the Addresses, he appears to support the general view held by both the Remonstrants and the Contra-Remonstrants that God's Will is needed for regeneration: ''Only in immediate contact with God and in direct emancipation of his life from Him will he [man] find life, light and happiness'' (38). While the Contra-Remonstrants would support this position, a final clarification by Fichte appears to move him into the Remonstrant camp: ''but in any separation from the immediate contact [with God], death, darkness, and misery'' (38). The possibility that the elect could possibly fall from grace is inconceivable to a believer in the Contra-Remonstrant principle of the ''perseverance of saints.…”
Section: Support For a Remonstrant Position In The ''Addresses''mentioning
confidence: 81%
“…Leighton's conclusion about this relationship directly raises the issue of free choice as ''each individual has the power of free choice, which God himself cannot take away.'' 38 The interesting point here is that Leighton, independently of Dekker's argument in ''Was Arminius a Molinist?'' introduces the notion of individual free will to Fichte's work.…”
Section: Support For a Remonstrant Position In The ''Addresses''mentioning
confidence: 98%
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