…While the entire Old Testament is summed up in the word “Law,” the word that sums up the entire New Testament is “Grace.” The history of salvation, which began with creation and will be accomplished with the second coming of Christ at the end of the world, is nothing other than the incarnate unfolding of God’s grace. Christianity teaches that humans, who are sinners and in a state of death, cut off from God, the source of life, can be forgiven of their sins, justified, and able to enter into fellowship with God again, not by any good deeds on the part of humans, but by God’s absolutely free and unconditional grace. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "God's grace" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…旧約時代の全体が〈律法〉という言葉に集約されるのに対して,新約時代の全体を要約する言葉は〈恩寵〉である。創造にはじまり,終末におけるキリストの再臨をもって成就される救いの歴史は,神の恩寵の受肉的展開にほかならない。キリスト教は,罪人であり,生命の源である神から断ち切られて死の状態にある人間がその罪をゆるされ,義とされて再び神との交わりに入ることができるのは,人間の側のどのような善行によるのでもなく,絶対に無償で無条件的な神の恩寵による,と教える。… ※「神の恩寵」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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