John Barclay offers a capacious and helpful framework for reflection on large swathes of the history of the theology of grace with his notion of the six ways of ‘perfecting the gift’. In this article, I extend his analysis to a consideration of certain typical differences between Catholic and Protestant conceptions of grace. Where Protestant theology tends toward a juxtaposition of grace with sin, Catholic theology often considers grace in relation to nature, and each side, I suggest, has its own characteristic proclivity towards paradox.

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悖论和保罗：天主教和新教恩典神学

约翰巴克莱提供了一个广阔而有用的框架，用于反思恩典神学历史的大片，以及他关于“完善礼物”的六种方式的概念。在这篇文章中，我将他的分析扩展到考虑天主教和新教恩典概念之间的某些典型差异。在新教神学倾向于将恩典与罪并置的地方，天主教神学经常考虑恩典与自然的关系，我认为，每一方都有自己特有的悖论倾向。