Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume V St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings"The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD marked the beginning of a new era in Christianity. For the first time, doctrines were organized into a single creed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers did most of their writing during and after this important event in Church history. Unlike the previous era of Christian writing, the Nicene and Post-Nicene era is dominated by a few very important and prolific writers. In Volume V of the 14-volume collected writings of the Nicenes and Post-Nicenes (first published between 1886 and 1889), readers will discover Saint Augustines rebuke of Pelagianism. This doctrine undermined Augustines beliefs because it claimed that original sin did not exist. Since there was no original sin, humans were saved or lost based solely on their own will. This further meant that Jesus, while a great teacher and model human being, did not die to save humanity, negating a large portion of Christian doctrine. Augustine believed that salvation was available only by the grace of God working in conjunction with mans decision to live a good life. Spiritual seekers and students of history will find this work a thorough defense of Catholic theology." |
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Contents
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PHILIP SCHAFF New ow Seemlier | 1 |
Gods true grace could be defended eves if there were no original sm as Pilagius | 29 |
What is this difference between the ability not to sin to die and forsake good and the inability to sin to dib anb to forsake good? | 33 |
the aid without which a thin does not com1 to pass and the aid with which | 34 |
CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE ON THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER i The occasion of writing this work a thing may be capableof being done an... | 83 |
The examples apposite | 84 |
The commandment of love shall be perfectly fulfilled in the life to come | 165 |
To whom Gods commandments are grievous and to whom not Why Scripture says that Gods commandments are not GRIEVOUS a commandment is... | 166 |
the first passage | 167 |
Forgiveness of ones injuries gives right to ask for forgiveness | 168 |
ON GRACE AND FREE WILL One Book Written in 426 or | 427 |
The Treatise itself | 441 |
thing comes to pass | 485 |
There is a debater freedom mow in the saints than thee was before in Adam | 486 |
The teaching of law without the LIFEGIVING spirit is the letter that killeth | 85 |
Romans interprets Corinthians gfi 9 Through the law sin has abounded | 86 |
From what fountain good works flow g7 is Paul whence so called bravely contends for grace | 87 |
In what respect the Pelagians acknowledge God as the Author of our justification | 88 |
How the law was not made for a righteous man | 89 |
1? The exclusion of boasting | 90 |
The knowledge of God through the creation | 91 |
no man justified by works | 92 |
how the decalogue kills ip grace be not present | 93 |
The passage in Corinthians | 94 |
Grace concealed in the Old Testament is revealed in the New | 95 |
3 The old law ministers death the new righteousness | 96 |
The prophecy of Jeremiah concerning the New Testament | 97 |
The old law the new law gj 36 The law written in our hearts | 98 |
The eternal reward which is specially declared in the New Testament foretold by the prophet | 99 |
ON MANS PERFECTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS ONE Book WRITTEN aboot | 155 |
CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE ON MANS PERFECTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS Introductory | 159 |
r Tub First Breviate Is sin avoidable or unavoidable? | 160 |
Does command imply ability? | 161 |
Do we accuse God in affirming human sin? | 162 |
Can there be guilt where there is no ability? | 163 |
It is one thins to depart from the body another thing to re liberated from the body of this death | 164 |
to a sound will is committed the power of persevering ok of not persevering | 487 |
No one is certain and secure of his own predestination ANB SALVATION | 488 |
The reprobate are to be punished for merits of a different kind | 489 |
power than they themselves have | 490 |
Another interpretation of the apostolic passage who will have all men to be SAVE D | 491 |
Maintains | 536 |
Infants are wot judged according to that which they are foreknown as likely to do if they should live 337 | 537 |
3 The inscrutability of Gods free purposes | 538 |
What predestination is | 539 |
Ears to bear are a willingness to obey | 540 |
Prayer and exhortation | 541 |
Further development of the foregoing argument | 543 |
Exhortation to other gifts op God in like manner | 544 |
Practice of Cyprian and Ambrose | 545 |
Obedience not discouraged by preaching Gods gifts | 546 |
Previous writings anticipatiybly refuted the Pelagian heresy | 547 |
Testimony of his previous writings and letters | 548 |
How predestination must be preached so as not to give offence 349 | 549 |
Prayer to be inculcated nevertheless | 550 |
The testimony of the whole Church in hir prayers 530 | 552 |
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| Title | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume V St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings Cosimo classics religion + spirituality |
| Editor | Philip Schaff |
| Publisher | Cosimo, Inc., 2007 |
| ISBN | 1602065993, 9781602065994 |
| Length | 640 pages |
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