Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume V St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian WritingsPhilip Schaff "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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... not . For the good that I would I do not ; but the evil which I would not , that I do . Now if I do that I would not , it is no more I that do it , but sin that dwelleth in me . I find then a law , that , when I would do good , evil is ...
... not . For the good that I would I do not ; but the evil which I would not , that I do . Now if I do that I would not , it is no more I that do it , but sin that dwelleth in me . I find then a law , that , when I would do good , evil is ...
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ON THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER ONE BOOK WRITTEN A D 412 | 80 |
CHAPTER PAGE 40 HOW THAT IS TO BE THE REWARD OF ALL THE APOSTLE EARNESTLY DEFENDS GRACE | 99 |
THE LAW WRITTEN IN THE HEART AND THE REWARD OF THE ETERNAL CONTEMPLATION OF GOD BELONG TO THE NEW COVEN... | 100 |
WHEN THE COMMANDMENT TO LOVE IS FULFILLED | 112 |
ALTHOUGH PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS BE NOT FOUND HERE ON EARTH IT IS STILL NOT IMPOSSIBLE | 113 |
those numbered by the Benedictines 140 157 178 179 190 191 193 194 and many of his sermons as e g 155 | 155 |
against the Pelagians vol ii of Vallarsius PAULUS OROSIUS Apology against Pelagius MARIUS MERCATORS | 163 |
GODS PROMISES CONDITIONAL SAINTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WERE SAVED BY THE GRACE | 175 |
ON DE ANIMâ et ejus Origine | 310 |
Addressed to THE PRESBYTER PETER | 331 |
ADDRESSED TO VINCENTIUS Victor | 353 |
A QUESTION TOUCHING THE PASSAGE IN THE APOSTLE ABOUT THE GENTILES WHO ARE SAID TO DO BY NATURE THE LAWS CO... | 101 |
IT IS NOT BY THEIR WORKS BUT BY GRACE THAT THE DOERS OF THE LAW ARE JUSTIFIED GODS SAINTS AND GODS NAME HALL... | 102 |
THE LAW BEING DONE BY NATURE MEANS DONE BY NATURE AS RESTORED BY GRACE | 103 |
THE GRACE PROMISED BY THE PROPHET FOR THE NEW COVENANT | 104 |
FAITH THE GROUND OF ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS | 105 |
GRACE ESTABLISHES FREE WILL | 106 |
WHETHER FAITH BE IN A MANS OWN POWER | 107 |
WHENCE COMES THE WILL TO BELIEVE? | 108 |
THE FREE WILL OF MAN IS AN INTERMEDIATE POWER | 109 |
THE WILL TO BELIEVE IS FROM GOD 11Ο 61 CONCLUSION OF THE WORK III | 111 |
Book III | 370 |
ON GRACE AND FREE WILL ONE BOOK WRITTEN IN 426 OR 427 | 377 |
ON NATURE AND GRACE ONE BOOK WRITTEN A D | 415 |
EXTRACT FROM AUGUSTINS RETRACTATIONS | 436 |
ON REBUKE AND GRACE ONE BOOK WRITTEN IN 426 OR 427 | 468 |
IN THE BEGINNING THE WRITER SETS FORTH WHAT IS THE CATHOLIC FAITH CON | 497 |
THE TREATISE ITSELF | 557 |
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Page 25 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Page 93 - Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: (for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth...
Page 91 - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Page 30 - So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Page 94 - Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men : forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 87 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death : that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection...
Page 106 - The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Page 95 - What shall we say then? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin,. but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Page 33 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying ; Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.