Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

The Bible offers a unified portrayal of a God who is essentially gracious, merciful, and loving. The discernment of the Bible's “single plot”—the hermeneutics of grace—has profound social and ethical implications.

According to Luke, Jesus commends in word and action a vision of God's domain as one defined by grace—welcoming, inclusive grace received and, in turn, extended to others.

Paul's concept of grace was not static. His experiences as an apostle of Christ led him to probe its limits, but not necessarily to reach them.

It is a mistake to oppose law and grace, for God's grace makes way for a radically transformed social and moral order. The law of Christ enables a new way of life that is obedient to God.

The Reformed witness to grace may be even more needed today than it was in the sixteenth century, since now Pelagianism seems comfortably at home in the Reformed churches. But the question is whether “sovereign grace” requires the predestinarianism that the Reformers took over from Augustine.