Augustine's Writings on Grace and Free WIll

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This eBook comes complete with an active linked Table of Contents, making navigation quicker and easier.B. B. Warfield said, "Augustine [was one of the early founders] of Roman Catholicism and the author of that doctrine of grace which it has been the constantly pursued effort of Roman Catholicism to neutralize, and which in very fact either must be neutralized by, or will neutralize, Roman Catholicism. Two children were struggling in the womb of his mind. There can be no doubt which was the child of his heart. His doctrine of the Church he had received whole from his predecessors, and he gave it merely the precision and vitality which insured its persistence. His doctrine of grace was all his own: it represented the very core of his being . . . it was inevitable, had time been allowed, that his inherited doctrine of the Church, too, with all its implications, would have gone down before it, and Augustine would have bequeathed to the Church, not "problems," but a thoroughly worked out system of evangelical religion. . . . The problem which Augustine bequeathed to the Church for solution, the Church required a thousand years to solve. But even so, it is Augustine who gave us the Reformation. For the Reformation, inwardly considered, was just the ultimate triumph of Augustine's doctrine of grace over Augustine's doctrine of the Church." (Warfield, Calvin and Augustine, 321-22)--------------------------Table of ContentsAugustine's Doctrine of the Bondage of the WillContrasting Augustine and the Council of Orange (529 AD) with The Council of Trent (1563)A.A. Hodge - Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism & AugustinianismB. B. Warfield - Augustine & the Pelagian ControversyHistoric Documents on Grace AloneAugustine - A Treatise On Grace and Free WillAugustine - A Treatise On Nature and Grace, Against PelagiusAugustine - A Treatiuse On Rebuke an