Four Anti-Pelagian Writings St AugustinePaperback
Four Anti-Pelagian Writings St AugustinePaperback This volume brings together writings from early and late stages of Augustine's involvement in the Pelagian controversy. 415-16 and constitute two of…
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Four Anti-Pelagian Writings St AugustinePaperback
This volume brings together writings from early and late stages of Augustine's involvement in the Pelagian controversy. 415-16 and constitute two of Augustine's most extensive treatments of the actual words of Pelagius. On Nature and Grace and On the Proceedings of Pelagius both date from A.D.
428, near the end of Augustine's life. On the Predestination of the Saints and On the Gift of Perseverance were probably written in A.D. Augustine's opponents in his writings, he admits, are not really Pelagains at all.
They were monks of Provence, led by John Cassian, who were disturbed by the more extreme consequences of the theology of grace and predestination that Augustine had worked out in his controversy with the Pelagians. Since the sixteenth century, they have been labeled "semi-Pelagians."Taken together, these writings provide an