Pelagius Anticipated: Grace and Election in Augustine's Ad Simplicianum

The anti-Pelagian emphasis on inwardly working grace is conspiscuously absent from Ad Simplicianum. Nevertheless, I suspect that when Augustine moves the 'locus of grace' operation to deeper recesses within the human personality, he does so in a way that maintains an essential continuity with the fr...

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Author:James Wetzel
Published: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Toronto, 1992
Pages:121-132
Format:Article
Topic:- Works > Anti-Pelagian Works > De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum > [Thèmes] > Grace
- Doctrine > From man to God > Jesus Christ. Redemption. Sacraments. Church. Grace. Mariology. > Grace > [Prédestination - Élection (grâce et liberté)] > [Election/élus] > [Élection divine]
Parent Work: Augustine, from rhetor to theologian
Status:Active
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Summary:The anti-Pelagian emphasis on inwardly working grace is conspiscuously absent from Ad Simplicianum. Nevertheless, I suspect that when Augustine moves the 'locus of grace' operation to deeper recesses within the human personality, he does so in a way that maintains an essential continuity with the framework of Ad Simplicianum (p.122).