I already knew that, but Davidson talks about it in terms of the development of Christianity modifying the sense of charis to something more teleological? Eschatological? Where, anyway, it becomes in some forms an exchange - faith for grace - rather than a free gift.
From my own reading, I think Davidson is slightly hostile (well, no matter, many classicists are and so am I) to early Christianity, and that he might be simplifying the early Christian development of the concept of charis, which is, well, complicated and contradictory, since Augustine seems to think that grace is both free gift and something that can be sort of 'earned.'
(As in any organic development, things get complicated really soon. Particularly when using Greek to talk about Aramaic and Hebrew and possibly entirely new concepts.)
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Date: 2010-06-18 08:10 pm (UTC)I already knew that, but Davidson talks about it in terms of the development of Christianity modifying the sense of charis to something more teleological? Eschatological? Where, anyway, it becomes in some forms an exchange - faith for grace - rather than a free gift.
From my own reading, I think Davidson is slightly hostile (well, no matter, many classicists are and so am I) to early Christianity, and that he might be simplifying the early Christian development of the concept of charis, which is, well, complicated and contradictory, since Augustine seems to think that grace is both free gift and something that can be sort of 'earned.'
(As in any organic development, things get complicated really soon. Particularly when using Greek to talk about Aramaic and Hebrew and possibly entirely new concepts.)