ABSTRACT
Samuel Taylor Coleridge differentiates between several types of images related to redemption in the New Testament. Coleridge repeatedly affirmed that the agent of Redemption is Jesus Christ, the incarnate Second Person of the Trinity. Coleridge rejects the possibility of some inherent human capability to restore a will that has chosen evil. In his parable about proper understanding of redemption, Coleridge says that what is needed for a restored relationship between the mother and son is for the son to “in his own person become a grateful and dutiful child” through “gradually assimilating his mind to the mind of his benefactor”. Taylor recognized a distinction between Dort and certain non-Dortian Calvinists who proved “so fierce in their sentences of predestination and reprobation” that they saw humanity as slaves, over whom he having absolute power, was very gracious that he was pleased to take some few, and save them absolutely; though he was pleased to damn them eternally, only because he pleased.
