Answer to the Pelagians

Answer to the Pelagians PDF Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: New City Press
ISBN: 1565481364
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Works of St. Augustine - an English Translation for the 21st century.

Answer to the Pelagians

Answer to the Pelagians PDF Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: New City Press
ISBN: 1565481364
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Works of St. Augustine - an English Translation for the 21st century.

Against Two Letters of the Pelagians

Against Two Letters of the Pelagians PDF Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781514260043
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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.

Answer to the Pelagians

Answer to the Pelagians PDF Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
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Category : Pelagianism
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Answer to the Pelagians

Answer to the Pelagians PDF Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
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Category : Pelagianism
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Answer to the Pelagians

Answer to the Pelagians PDF Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
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Category : Pelagianism
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Answer to the Pelagians

Answer to the Pelagians PDF Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher: New City Press
ISBN: 1565481291
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 770

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Augustine was writing the Unfinished Work in Answer to Julian, published in this volume, when he died in August 430. The Unfinished Work is a rebuttal of Julian of Eclanum's To Florus, an eight-book text in defense of Pelagianism, which had by then been officially condemned by the Church. Augustine and Julian had previously written responses to excerpts of one another's work, though not in direct correspondence. In Unfinished Work, however, Augustine writes as though speaking to Julian directly, making for an engaging and clear read. He quotes each point of To Florus to which he responds, so the reader gains a comprehensive picture of his opponent's views. Once again, Augustine defends grace as a gift from God and Jesus as the savior of all humanity.

The Theology of Liberalism

The Theology of Liberalism PDF Author: Eric Nelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674242955
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing. We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country’s most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls’s wake. Nelson starts by noting that today’s liberal political philosophers treat the unequal distribution of social and natural advantages as morally arbitrary. This arbitrariness, they claim, diminishes our moral responsibility for our actions. Some even argue that we are not morally responsible when our own choices and efforts produce inequalities. In defending such views, Nelson writes, modern liberals have implicitly taken up positions in an age-old debate about whether the nature of the created world is consistent with the justice of God. Strikingly, their commitments diverge sharply from those of their proto-liberal predecessors, who rejected the notion of moral arbitrariness in favor of what was called Pelagianism—the view that beings created and judged by a just God must be capable of freedom and merit. Nelson reconstructs this earlier “liberal” position and shows that Rawls’s philosophy derived from his self-conscious repudiation of Pelagianism. In closing, Nelson sketches a way out of the argumentative maze for liberals who wish to emerge with commitments to freedom and equality intact.

Against Julian (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 35)

Against Julian (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 35) PDF Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813211352
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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In Against Julian Augustine stresses in the first two books the traditional teachings of the Church found in the Fathers and contrasts their teaching with the rationalism of the Pelagians

On Nature and Grace

On Nature and Grace PDF Author: St Augustine of Hippo
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ISBN: 9781078330923
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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.'"

On the Predestination of the Saints

On the Predestination of the Saints PDF Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher: Fig
ISBN: 1623146895
Category : Audiobooks
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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