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A holistic understanding of the biblical concept of regeneration (παλιγγενεσία)is of critical importance to the soteriological aspect of the Christian faith. Unfortunately, the Greek lexical (παλιγγενεσία) occurs only twice in New Testament thought. Further, only the pastoral Epistle to Titus relates regeneration with the salvic process. While philosophical theories, such as monergism and synergism, have been proposed in an effort to connect the pastoral description of regeneration to the working of the Holy Spirit, the complex and ill-defined syntactical construction of the Greek phrase (διὰ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας καὶ ἀνακαινώσεως Πνεύματος Ἁγίου) makes any tendentious assertion concerning the author's original meaning tenuous. In this work, pistergism (πίστηργισμós) is defined as an alternative soteriological framework that views regeneration as lexically isolated from the renewal of the Holy Spirit. The theory of pistergism posits that the Holy Spirit does not administer in the regeneration process. This theory views sola fide as the origin and means of initial salvation. In contrast to both monergism and synergism which respectively posit that the Holy Spirit is entirely or partially involved in the regeneration process, pistergism posits that initial salvation, as defined in biblical thought, is the direct and singular result of a person hearing the Gospel and choosing to believe.
Jordan Pommerenck (Mon,) studied this question.