Both Calvinist and Arminian soteriologies, flowing from the broad Augustinian and more narrow Protestant streams of the Christian faith, teach our total need for grace. Calvinism does this in viewing grace as irresistible and unconditional, Arminianism in viewing grace as free and universal and in highlighting the category of prevenient grace. Arminian soteriology preserves the gratuity of grace—its character as freely given, without strings attached—alongside its belief that salvation is for those who believe and persevere, by insisting that the ability to believe and persevere comes only as
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