Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
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Category : Religion
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“After the conviction and condemnation of the Pelagian heresy with its authors by the bishops of the Church of Rome,—first Innocent, and then Zosimus,—with the co-operation of letters of African councils, I wrote two books against them: one On the Grace of Christ, and the other On Original Sin. The work began with the following words: How greatly we rejoice on account of your bodily, and, above all, because of your Spiritual welfare.’“ Aeterna Press
Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2015-06-08
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ISBN : 9781514267349
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.
Author : St. Augustine
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2018-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781643730561
"After the conviction and condemnation of the Pelagian heresy with its authors by the bishops of the Church of Rome, --first Innocent, and then Zosimus, --with the cooperation of letters of African councils, I wrote two books against them: one On the Grace of Christ, and the other On Original Sin. The work began with the following words: 'How greatly we rejoice because your bodily, and, above all, because of your Spiritual welfare.'"
Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Fig
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : 1623146895
Author : John Taylor
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Sin, Original
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Author : John Wesley
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1757
Category : Sin
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Author : Henry Augustus Boardman
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Sin
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Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
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Category : Religion
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A Necessity arose which compelled me to write against the new heresy of Pelagius. Our previous opposition to it was confined to sermons and conversations, as occasions suggested, and according to our respective abilities and duties; but it had not yet assumed the shape of a controversy in writing. Certain questions were then submitted to me [by our brethren] at Carthage, to which I was to send them back answers in writing; I accordingly wrote first of all three books, under the title “On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins,” in which I mainly discussed the baptism of infants because of original sin, and the grace of God by which we are justified, that is, made righteous; but [I remarked] no man in this life can so keep the commandments which prescribe holiness of life, as to be beyond the necessity of using this prayer for his sins: “Forgive us our trespasses.” It is in direct opposition to these principles that they have devised their new heresy. Aeterna Press
Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
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Category : Religion
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There are some persons who suppose that the freedom of the will is denied whenever God’s grace is maintained, and who on their side defend their liberty of will so peremptorily as to deny the grace of God. This grace, as they assert, is bestowed according to our own merits. It is in consequence of their opinions that I wrote the book entitled On Grace and Free Will. This work I addressed to the monks of Adrumetum, in whose monastry first arose the controversy on that subject, and that in such a manner that some of them were obliged to consult me thereon. The work begins with these words: “With reference to those persons who so preach the liberty of the human will.” Aeterna Press
Author : St Augustine of Hippo
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2019-07-05
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ISBN : 9781078330923
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.'"
