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NPNF1-05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

NPNF1-05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

Philip Schaff (1819–1893) was a Swiss-born church historian who taught at Mercersburg and later at Union Theological Seminary in New York. A bridge between German scholarship and the English-speaking church, he founded the American Society of Church History and edited vast reference works. Our library's Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series — which he conceived and edited — together with his History of the Christian Church and Creeds of Christendom, came largely through his labors.

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First published
1886
Length
486k words · about 32 hours

About this book

A volume of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series, edited by Philip Schaff, devoted to Augustine's anti-Pelagian writings. In these treatises Augustine defends the necessity of grace against the teaching that human beings can please God by unaided effort. They became foundational for the Western church's doctrine of sin, grace, and the bondage of the will.

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