Concept

Regeneration (theology)

Overview

concept in Christian theology

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1. In Christianity the individual, personal mind for the first time becomes of real, infinite and absolute value; God wills that all men shall be saved. It was in the Christian religion that the doctrine was advanced that all men are equal before God, because Christ has set them free with the freedom of Christianity. These principles make freedom independent of any such things as birth, standing or culture. The…

   Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy

   Close in meaning to Regeneration; the term itself is not named.

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2. And as in Isaac, who was circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, the seal of this righteousness of faith was given first, and afterwards, as he imitated the faith of his father, the righteousness itself followed as he grew up, of which the seal had been given before when he was an infant; so in infants, who are baptized, the sacrament of regeneration is given first, and if they maintain a Christian piety…

   of Hippo Augustine, Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy

   States what Regeneration is; names Regeneration twice.

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3. From The Name Of Regeneration The time between the Ascension, and the generall Resurrection, is called, not a Reigning, but a Regeneration; that is, a Preparation of men for the second and glorious coming of Christ, at the day of Judgment; as appeareth by the words of our Saviour, Mat. 19.28. "You that have followed me in the Regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, you shall also sit…

   Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

   States what Regeneration is; names Regeneration several times.

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• Gospel of Matthew
• Gospel of John
• Arminianism
• Holy Spirit
• John Calvin
• Doctrine
• Modernism
• Methodism
• New Testament
• Lutheranism
• Palingenesis
• Protestantism
• Christian theology
• Salvation
• Koine Greek
• Baptism
• God
• Christianity
• Reformed Christianity

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