A History of Christian Doctrine Volume 2
Description:... This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... destinate before he foreknew, but to those whose merit he foreknew, he predestinated the rewards of merit." " The will of man is brought into a state of recipiency (praeparatio) by God. For that God may be honored by a holy will is through God's grace."1 A comparison of the latter passage with the former evinces a mental wavering between synergism and monergism. Hilary is more explicit and firm in favor of the theory of cooperation; although asserting the weakness of the apostate will. The following passages indicate his views. " In preserving our righteousness, unless we are guided by God, we shall be inferior through our own nature. Wherefore, we need to be assisted and directed by his grace in order to attain the righteousness of obedience." " The persevering in faith is of God, but the origin and commencement of faith is from ourselves." " It is the part of divine mercy to assist the willing, to confirm those who are making a beginning, to receive those who are approaching. But the commencement is from ourselves, that God may finish and perfect."8 3. Anthropology of Augustine. The anthropology indicated in these extracts 1 Ahbbosibs: De fide, lib. V. tera i. 12; In Psal. CXIX, litera n. 83; Expositio in Lucam, lib. I. xiv. 10; In Psal. CXIX, liter* Hilawus: In Psal. CXIX, li- xvi. 10. from Tertullian, Cyprian, Hilary, and Ambrose, grew more and more definite in the Latin Church, and became theoretically the established faith within it. It was wrought out into its most distinct form, and received its fullest statement, in the Patristic period, in the Augustinian anthropology, of which we shall now make a detailed examination.1 In the first part of his Christian life, Augustine was influenced by the views of his teacher...
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