Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 86)

Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 86) PDF Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813211867
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 86)

Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 86) PDF Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813211867
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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The Anti-Pelagian Writings

The Anti-Pelagian Writings PDF Author: St. Augustine of Hippo
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849675602
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 615

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Both by nature and by grace, Augustin was formed to be the champion of truth in this controversy. Of a naturally philosophical temperament, he saw into the springs of life with a vividness of mental perception to which most men are strangers; and his own experiences in his long life of resistance to, and then of yielding to, the drawings of God’s grace, gave him a clear apprehension of the great evangelic principle that God seeks men, not men God, such as no sophistry could cloud. However much his philosophy or theology might undergo change in other particulars, there was one conviction too deeply imprinted upon his heart ever to fade or alter,—the conviction of the ineffableness of God’s grace. This book comprises St. Augustine’s writings and thoughts regarding the Anti-Pelagian dispute.

The Anti-Pelagian Christology of Augustine of Hippo, 396-430

The Anti-Pelagian Christology of Augustine of Hippo, 396-430 PDF Author: Dominic Keech
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199662231
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universit of Oxford, 2010.

A Treatise on the Gift of Perseverance

A Treatise on the Gift of Perseverance PDF Author: St. Augustine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643730622
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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In the first part of the book he proves that the perseverance by which a man perseveres in Christ to the end is God's gift; for that it is a mockery to ask of God that which is not believed to be given by God. Moreover, that in the Lord's prayer scarcely anything is asked for but perseverance, according to the exposition of the martyr Cyprian, by which exposition the enemies to this grace were convicted before they were born.

Against Two Letters of the Pelagians

Against Two Letters of the Pelagians PDF Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781514260043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Augustine, the man with upturned eye, with pen in the left hand, and a burning heart in the right (as he is usually represented), is a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, towering like a pyramid above his age, and looking down commandingly upon succeeding centuries. He had a mind uncommonly fertile and deep, bold and soaring; and with it, what is better, a heart full of Christian love and humility. He stands of right by the side of the greatest philosophers of antiquity and of modern times. We meet him alike on the broad highways and the narrow footpaths, on the giddy Alpine heights and in the awful depths of speculation, wherever philosophical thinkers before him or after him have trod. As a theologian he is facile princeps, at least surpassed by no church father, schoolman, or reformer. With royal munificence he scattered ideas in passing, which have set in mighty motion other lands and later times. He combined the creative power of Tertullian with the churchly spirit of Cyprian, the speculative intellect of the Greek church with the practical tact of the Latin. He was a Christian philosopher and a philosophical theologian to the full.

On Nature and Grace

On Nature and Grace PDF Author: St Augustine of Hippo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781078330923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Extract from Augustine's Retractions (Book II, Chapter 42): At that time also there came into my hands a certain book of Pelagius', in which he defends, with all the argumentative skill he could muster, the nature of man, in opposition to the grace of God whereby the unrighteous is justified and we become Christians. The treatise which contains my reply to him, and in which I defend grace, not indeed as in opposition to nature, but as that which liberates and controls nature, I have entitled On Nature and Grace. In this work sundry short passages, which were quoted by Pelagius as the words of the Roman bishop and martyr, Xystus, were vindicated by myself as if they really were the words of this Sixtus. For this I thought them at the time; but I afterwards discovered, that Sextus the heathen philosopher, and not Xystus the Christian bishop, was their author. This treatise of mine begins with the words: 'The book which you sent me.'"

Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will"

Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to Author: Kenneth M. Wilson
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3161557530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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The consensus view asserts Augustine developed his later doctrines ca. 396 CE while writing Ad Simplicianum as a result of studying scripture. His early De libero arbitrio argued for traditional free choice refuting Manichaean determinism, but his anti-Pelagian writings rejected any human ability to believe without God giving faith. Kenneth M. Wilson's study is the first work applying the comprehensive methodology of reading systematically and chronologically through Augustine's entire extant corpus (works, sermons, and letters 386-430 CE), and examining his doctrinal development. The author explores Augustine's later theology within the prior philosophical-religious context of free choice versus deterministic arguments. This analysis demonstrates Augustine persisted in traditional views until 412 CE and his theological transition was primarily due to his prior Stoic, Neoplatonic, and Manichaean influences.

Four Anti-pelagian Writings

Four Anti-pelagian Writings PDF Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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The Pelagian Controversy

The Pelagian Controversy PDF Author: Stuart Squires
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532637837
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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The Pelagian Controversy (411-431) was one of the most important theological controversies in the history of Christianity. It was a bitter and messy affair in the evening of the Roman Empire that addressed some of the most important questions that we ask about ourselves: Who are we? What does it mean to be a human being? Are we good, or are we evil? Are we burdened by an uncontrollable impulse to sin? Do we have free will? It was comprised by a group of men who were some of the greatest thinkers of Late Antiquity, such as Augustine, Jerome, John Cassian, Pelagius, Caelestius, and Julian of Eclanum. These men were deeply immersed in the rich Roman literary and intellectual traditions of that time, and they, along with many other great minds of this period, tried to create equally rich Christian literary and intellectual traditions. This controversy--which is usually of interest only to historians and theologians of Christianity--should be appreciated by a wide audience because it was the primary event that shaped the way Christians came to understand the human person for the next 1,600 years. It is still relevant today because anthropological questions continue to haunt our public discourse.

Gratia in Augustine’s Sermones Ad Populum During the Pelagian Controversy

Gratia in Augustine’s Sermones Ad Populum During the Pelagian Controversy PDF Author: Anthony Dupont
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004231579
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Studying the presence of grace in Augustine's sermones ad populum preached during the period of the Pelagian controversy, this book eplores the anthropological-ethical perspective of his doctrine of grace and indicates the continuity in his reflections on grace and human freedom.