{"id":3302,"date":"2020-03-08T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T12:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/benjamin-jowett-on-grace\/"},"modified":"2020-03-08T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T12:42:31","slug":"benjamin-jowett-on-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/benjamin-jowett-on-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Jowett on Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">A stunning formulation for your delectation from the translator of Plato and the don of Balliol College:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">An observation magisterial on all counts, combining as it does truth, economy of expression, and literary beauty: &quot;the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.&quot;&#0160; Could it do with a bit of paring? How about this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">. . . the energy of God&#39;s plenary affection rolling shoreward toward human need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Companion posts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/10\/grace.html\">Grace<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2019\/11\/the-fruits-of-a-formal-session.html\">Post-Session Fruits of a Formal Session<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stunning formulation for your delectation from the translator of Plato and the don of Balliol College: Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/benjamin-jowett-on-grace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Benjamin Jowett on Grace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,608,40,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-grace","category-literary-matters","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}