The Doctrine of Sin, The Second Period, 250-730 A.D. (15): The Pelagian Controversy: The Augustinian System

Toward the conclusion of our preceding article, we had begun to call attention to Augustine's conception or doctrine of God's redeeming grace. We noted that this church father's conception of grace was so completely different from that of Pelagius. He had experienced personally this power of the living God. That Augustine, as guided by the Holy Scriptures, makes the proper distinction between deism and pantheism is expressed very clearly in the following quotation from his Confessions, as...