Wikipedia

Augustinian soteriology

(Redirected from Augustinian predestination)

Augustinian soteriology refers to Augustine of Hippo (354–430) view on human salvation and God's providence. His thinking was shaped by early encounters with Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and Manichaeism. Although initially opposing deterministic ideas, Augustine later incorporated elements of these philosophies, especially in his debates with the Pelagians. His doctrines, such as predestination by predeterminism, became foundational for later theological developments and had a lasting impact on Christian thought up to the Reformation. Augustine's influence on John Calvin (1509–1564) was particularly significant in shaping Calvinist soteriology and its understanding of divine providence.

Developments of Augustinian soteriology

edit

Theological influences in the early church

edit

Manichaeism was a Gnostic sect founded in the 3rd century.[1] It significantly influenced early Christian churches, introducing spiritual practices like asceticism and sacerdotalism.[2] Manichaeism adopted a dualistic worldview, contrasting a spiritual realm of good with a material realm of evil, anticipating the gradual restoration of light from the material to the spiritual realm.[1] In terms of soteriology, it maintained that God unilaterally selected the elect for salvation and the non-elect for damnation according to His will.[3] For instance, in 392, a Manichean presbyter said that "God [...] has chosen souls worthy of Himself according to His own holy will. [...] that under His leadership those souls will return hence again to the kingdom of God according to the holy promise of Him who said: “I am the way, the truth, and the door”; and “No one can come unto the Father, except through me.”".[4]

Early church fathers prior to Augustine of Hippo (354–430) refuted non-choice predeterminism as being pagan.[5][6][7] Out of the fifty early Christian authors who wrote on the debate between free will and determinism, all fifty supported Christian free will against Stoic, Gnostic, and Manichean determinism.[8][9]

Theological influences on Augustine

edit
 
Anonymous, 1480, Augustine sacrifices to an idol of the Manichaeans.

Before his conversion to Christianity in 387, Augustine adhered to three deterministic philosophies: Stoicism, Neoplatonism and Manichaeism. He was significantly influenced by them, especially during his decade-long association with the Manichaeans.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] He seemed to adopt Manichean perspectives on various theological aspects, notably on the nature of good and evil, the separation of groups into elect, hearers, and sinners, and the hostility to the flesh and sexual activity, and his dualistic theology.[17][11]

After his conversion, he taught traditional Christian theology against forms of theological determinism until 412.[9][18][12][14] However, during his conflict with the Pelagians, he seemed to reintroduce certain Manichean principles into his thought,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] and was accused by his opponents of doing so.[27][28][29] For the rest of his life, he taught a soteriology where predestination is based on predeterminism.[8] This soteriology can be articulated in the following points: human depravity, unconditional predestination, effectual calling, irresistible grace, and final perseverance.[30]

Articulation of Augustinian soteriology

edit

Total depravity and unconditional election in infant baptism

edit

The controversy over infant baptism with the Pelagians contributed to Augustine's change.[31] Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 220) was the first Christian to mention infant baptism. He refuted it by saying children should not be baptized until they can personally believe in Christ.[32] Even by 400, there was no consensus regarding why infants should be baptized.[33][34] The Pelagians taught infant baptism merely allowed children to enter the kingdom of God (viewed as different than heaven), so that unbaptized infants could still be in heaven.[35] In response, Augustine invented the concept that infants are baptized to remove Adam's original guilt (guilt resulting in eternal damnation).[36] Inherited original sin was previously limited to physical death, moral weakness, and a sin propensity.[37]

Another key element within infant baptism was Augustine's early training in Stoicism, an ancient philosophy in which a meticulous god predetermines every detailed event in the universe.[38] This included the falling of a leaf from a tree to its exact location on the ground and the subtle movements of muscles in roosters' necks as they fight, which he explained in his first work, De providentia (On Providence).[39]

Augustine taught that God foreordained, or predestined, newborn babies who were baptized by actively helping or causing the parents to reach the bishop for baptism while the baby lived. By baptism, these babies would be saved from damnation. Augustine reasoned further that God actively blocked the parents of other infants from reaching the baptismal waters before their baby died. These babies were condemned to hell due to lack of baptism (according to Augustine).[40][41][42][43] His view remains controversial, even some Roman Catholic Augustinian scholars refute this idea,[44] and scholars cite the view's origin as derived as from Platonism, Stoicism, and Manichaeism.[45][7][46]

Augustine then expanded this concept from infants to adults. Since babies have no "will" to desire their baptisms, Augustine expanded the implication to all humans.[47][48] He concluded that God must predestine by predeterminism all humans prior to them making any choice. Although earlier Christians taught original sin, the concept of total depravity (total inability to believe on Christ) was borrowed from Gnostic Manichaeism. Manichaeism taught that unborn babies and unbaptized infants were damned to hell because of a physical body. Like the Gnostics, the Manichaean god had to resurrect the dead will by infusing faith and grace. Augustine changed the cause of total depravity to Adam's guilt but kept the Stoic, Manichaean, and Neoplatonic concepts of the human dead will requiring god's infused grace and faith to respond.[49]

Limited atonement

edit
 
Vittore Carpaccio, 1502, St. Augustine in His Study (detail)

Augustine attempted numerous explanations of 1 Timothy 2:4.[50] The Pelagians assumed 1 Tim. 2:4 taught that God gave the gift of faith to all persons, which Augustine easily refuted by changing wills/desires to "provides opportunity".[51] In 414, Augustine's new theology has "all kinds/classes" definitively replacing "all" as absolute.[52] In 417, he repeated this change of "all" to "all kinds".[53]

In 421[54] Augustine altered the text to read "all who are saved" meaning those who are saved are only saved by God's will, which he repeats the next year.[55] People fail to be saved, "not because they do not will it, but because God does not".[56] Despite their certain damnation, God makes other Christians desire their impossible salvation.[57] John Rist identifies this as "the most pathetic passage."[58] By 429, Augustine quotes 1 Corinthians 1:18 adding "such" to 1 Tim. 2:4, redefines all to mean as "all those elected," and implies an irresistible calling. Hwang noted,

Then the radical shift occurred, brought about by the open and heated conflict with the Pelagians. 'Desires' took on absolute and efficacious qualities, and the meaning of 'all' was reduced to the predestined. 1 Tim. 2:4 should be understood, then, as meaning that God saves only the predestined. All others, apparently, do not even have a prayer.[50]

Augustine attempted at least five answers over a decade of time trying to explain 1 Tim. 2:4 regarding the extent of Christ's redeeming sacrifice.[50] His major premise was the pagan idea that God receives everything he desires. Omnipotence (Stoic and Neoplatonic) is doing whatever the One desires, ensuring everything that occurs in the universe is exactly the Almighty's will and so must come to pass.'s new theology has "all kinds/classes" definitively replacing "all" as absolute.[52] In 417, he repeated this change of "all" to "all kinds".[59][60] He concluded that because God gets everything he wants, God does not desire all persons to be saved, otherwise every human would be saved.[7]

Henry Chadwick concluded that because Augustine's God does not desire and so refuses to save all persons, Augustine elevated God's sovereignty as absolute and God's justice was trampled.[7] This also logically demanded that Christ could not have died for those who would not be saved. Therefore, Christ only died for the elect since God does not waste causation or energy.[61]

Irresistible grace

edit

Augustine, developed the concepts of "prevenient grace",[62] "operative grace" and "cooperative grace".[63] In response to Pelagianism, Augustine argued that prevenient grace is necessary to prepare the human will for conversion.[63] Pelagius had appealed to St. Ambrose (c. 339 – c. 397), to which Augustine replied with a series of quotations from Ambrose which indicated the need for prevenient grace.[64] Augustine described free will without the spiritual aid of grace as, "captive free will" (Latin: liberum arbitrium captivatum).[65]

Through the action of grace, this will becomes a "freed will" or literally a "freed free will" (Latin: liberum arbitrium liberatum).[66] Prevenient grace first provides the necessary spiritual enlightenment, then the elect only is granted with the power to believe and kindles justifying faith.[67] Augustine considered operative grace as unfailing for the elect,[68][69] though he did not use the term "irresistible grace".[70] Some Protestant theologians interpret Augustine's teachings to suggest that all forms of God's grace are irresistible in the process of salvation.[71][72][73]

Perseverance of the saints

edit

Since Augustine believed that the Holy Spirit is received at water baptism, producing regeneration, he had to explain why some baptized individuals continued in the faith while others fell away and lived immoral lives. Augustine taught that among those regenerated through baptism, some are given an additional gift of perseverance ("donum perseverantiae") which enables them to maintain their faith and prevents them from falling away.[74][72][75] Without this second gift, a baptized Christian with the Holy Spirit would not persevere and ultimately would not be saved.[76]

Augustine developed this doctrine of perseverance in De correptione et gratia (c. 426–427).[77] While this doctrine theoretically gives security to the elect who receive the gift of perseverance, individuals cannot ascertain whether they have received it.[78][79][13]

Hilary of Galeata (476–558) expressed concern that many Christians resisted Augustine’s radical view of perseverance. Hilary complained, "[T]hey do not want this perseverance to be preached if it means that it can neither be merited by prayer nor lost by rebellion".[80][81]

Double predestination

edit

Double predestination, or the double decree, is the doctrine that God actively decrees both the damnation of some individuals and the salvation of those He has elected. After 411, Augustine made statements supporting this view.[82][83][84][85][86][87] While his earlier writings are ambiguous on the matter, his later teachings more clearly affirm predestination by predeterminism.[19][88]

Prosper of Aquitaine (c. 390 – c. 455) expressed concerns that many Christians resisted Augustine’s new and controversial view of predestination. The opposition arose because Augustine’s view rejected the traditional view of election based upon God's foreknowledge, replacing it with a predestination as "necessity based upon fate".[89] Similarly, the Council of Arles (475) condemned the idea that "some have been condemned to death, others have been predestined to life".[90] In 529, the Second Council of Orange explicitly rejected the notion of predestination to evil.[91]

Catholic scholars tend to deny Augustine held double predestination while some Protestants and secular scholars have held that Augustine did believe in it.[92][93] Current scholarly debates suggest that this doctrine is at least implied by his later thought.[94]

Later influence of Augustinian soteriology

edit
 
Anonymous (17th century) Portrait of John Calvin

Proponents of Augustinian soteriology before the Reformation

edit

Between the 5th century and the Reformation in the 16th century, theologians who upheld Augustinian soteriology, included: Gottschalk of Orbais (c. 808–868),[95][96] Ratramnus (died 868),[97] Thomas Bradwardine (1300–1349),[98][99][100] Gregory of Rimini (1300–1358),[101][102] John Wycliffe (1320s – 1384),[103][104] Johann Ruchrat von Wesel (died 1481),[105][106] Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498)[107] and Johann von Staupitz (1460–1524).[108]

Reformed and Lutheran proponents

edit

In the centuries preceding the Reformation, an "Augustinian Renaissance" took place, reviving interest in Augustine’s thought.[109] Augustine is widely regarded as the most influential patristic figure for the Reformation, which was shaped by theologians deeply rooted in his soteriology,[73] including Martin Luther (1483–1546),[110] Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531),[111] and John Calvin (1509–1564).[112]

Augustine influence on Calvin

edit

John Calvin wrote, "Augustine is so much at one with me that, if I wished to write a confession of my faith, it would abundantly satisfy me to quote wholesale from his writings."[113]

"This is why one finds that every four pages written in the Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin quoted Augustine. Calvin, for this reason, would deem himself not a Calvinist, but an Augustinian. [...] Christian Calvinist, should they be more likely deemed an Augustinian-Calvinist?", explains, Reformed theologian C. Matthew McMahon.[112] Specialist of Augustine, Phillip Cary concurs, writing, "As a result, Calvinism in particular is sometimes referred to as Augustinianism."[114]

Twentieth-century Reformed theologian B. B. Warfield said, "The system of doctrine taught by Calvin is just the Augustinianism common to the whole body of the Reformers."[115] Reformed theologian, Paul Helm, used the term "Augustinian Calvinism" for his view in the article "The Augustinian-Calvinist View" in Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views.[116]

Summary of Calvinist soteriology

edit

The soteriology of Calvin was further shaped and systematized by Theodore Beza and other theologians.[117] It was then articulated during the Second Synod of Dort (1618–1619) in response to the opposing Five Articles of Remonstrance.[118] A basic summary of the Canons of Dort is given by the five points of Calvinism:[119] Total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints.[118] Modern Reformed theologians continues to assert these points as a simple summary of the Calvinist soteriological doctrines.[120]

John Calvin also held double predestination views.[121][122] John Calvin states: "By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestined to life or to death."[123]

Jansenism

edit

Jansenism was a theological movement within 17th- and 18th-century Roman Catholicism, rooted in Augustinian soteriology. The movement's teachings were ultimately condemned by the Church in 1713.[124]

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ a b Arendzen 1913.
  2. ^ Newman 1904, p. 130. "Absurd and unchristian as this system [Manichaeism] seems to us, it claimed to be the only true Christianity, and by its lofty pretentions and the personal power of many of its advocates drew much of the intellect of the age into its ranks. We may say that with other influences; (a.) it stimulates the ascetical spirit, with the degradation of marriage, the exaltation of virginity, regarding the sexual instinct as absolutely evil and to be overcome by all possible means. (b.) The introduction of pompous ceremonial into the church. (c.) The systematization of Christian doctrine. (d.) Sacerdotalism, or the belief that men possess, by virtue of their office, extraordinary power with God. (e.) As a result of this sacerdotalism, the doctrine of indulgences (though in its development other influences can be distinguished) was introduced into the church."
  3. ^ Newman 1904, p. 130, ‌.
  4. ^ Oort 2006, pp. 715–716.
  5. ^ McIntire 2005, pp. 3206–3209, ch. Free Will and Predestination: Christian Concepts.
  6. ^ Chadwick 1966, p. 9.
  7. ^ a b c d Chadwick 1983, pp. 8–13, cf. Freedom and Necessity in Early Christian Thought About God.
  8. ^ a b Wiggers 1840, p. 364. "In respect to predestination, the fathers before Augustine differed entirely from him [...]. They founded predestination upon prescience [...] Hence the Massilians were entirely right when they maintained that Augustine's doctrine of predestination was contrary to the opinion of the fathers and the sense of the Church".
  9. ^ a b Wilson 2018, pp. 41–94.
  10. ^ McCann 2009, pp. 274–277.
  11. ^ a b Oort 2006, pp. 709–723.
  12. ^ a b O'Donnell 2005, pp. 45, 48.
  13. ^ a b Christie-Murray 1989, p. 89.
  14. ^ a b Chadwick 1986, p. 14.
  15. ^ Latourette 1945, p. 332. "The young Augustine for a time had fellowship with it [Manichaeanism). It seems to have left a permanent impression upon him."
  16. ^ Newman 1904, p. 361.
  17. ^ Adam 1968, pp. 1–25.
  18. ^ Levering 2011, pp. 48–49.
  19. ^ a b Wilson 2018, pp. 286–293.
  20. ^ Oort 2010, p. 520.
  21. ^ Hanegraaf 2005, pp. 757–765, ch. Manichaeism.
  22. ^ Bonner 1999, pp. 227–243, ch. Augustine, the Bible and the Pelagians.
  23. ^ Schaff 1997, pp. 789, 835.
  24. ^ Stroumsa 1992, pp. 344–345.
  25. ^ Widengren 1977, pp. 63–65, 90.
  26. ^ Strong & McClintock 1880.
  27. ^ Chadwick 1993, p. 232-233.
  28. ^ Mozley 1855, p. 149. "When St. Augustine is charged by Pelagius with fatalism, he does not disown the certainty and necessity, but only the popular superstitions and impieties of that system."
  29. ^ Augustine 1887, A treatise on the merits and forgiveness of sins, and on the baptism of infants, Book 2, ch. 5.
  30. ^ McKinley 1965, p. 24. "[Augustine's] powerful conversion seemed to him like irresistible grace and effectual calling. Combining these features of his conversion with remorse for his former sinful life, which gave him a black picture of human depravity, and adding to the mixture his pagan philosophy from Manichaeanism and Neoplatonism, Augustine, when too young a Christian to be a theological authority, came up with what to him was a perfect system of Christian doctrine, including absolute human depravity with utter inability to will for good; hence unconditional predestination, effectual calling, irresistible grace, and final perseverance."
  31. ^ Haight 1974, p. 30. "Infant baptism tended to be regarded as an initiation into the kingdom of God and the effects of Original Sin as mediated by society. Only adult baptism included the remission of sin. Augustine denied this traditional view: Man's nature is fundamentally disordered because of inherited sin and this involved personal guilt so that an unbaptized infant could not be save."
  32. ^ Tertullian 1887, Ch. 18. Of the Persons to Whom, and the Time When, Baptism is to Be Administered. "And so, according to the circumstances and disposition, and even age, of each individual, the delay of baptism is preferable; principally, however, in the case of little children."
  33. ^ Rees 1988, p. 27.
  34. ^ Frend 1955, pp. 216–231.
  35. ^ Miller 1964, pp. 1–13.
  36. ^ Augustine 1887, A treatise on the merits and forgiveness of sins, and on the baptism of infants, book 1, ch. 21.. "Hence men are on the one hand born in the flesh liable to sin and death from the first Adam, and on the other hand are born again in baptism associated with the righteousness and eternal life of the second Adam"
  37. ^ Blowers 1999, pp. 839–840, Ch. Original Sin.
  38. ^ Chadwick 1965.
  39. ^ Augustine 1994, pp. 1.12–25, De providentia.
  40. ^ Augustine 1887, pp. 29–30, A treatise on the merits and forgiveness of sins, and on the baptism of infants, Book 1, ch. 1.
  41. ^ Augustine 1994, De dono perseverantiae, ch. 31.
  42. ^ Augustine 1994, De predest., ch. 44.
  43. ^ Augustine 1994, Sermon, ch. 294.7.
  44. ^ Augustine 1994, pp. 184, 196, Sermons III/8, Sermon 294.
  45. ^ Oort 2006, pp. 710–728.
  46. ^ Chadwick 1991, pp. 229–230.
  47. ^ Augustine 1887, p. 6, A treatise on the merits and forgiveness of sins, and on the baptism of infants, Book 1, ch. 2.
  48. ^ Augustine 1994, De spiritu et littera, ch. 54–59.
  49. ^ Cross 2005, p. 129.
  50. ^ a b c Hwang 2006, pp. 137–142.
  51. ^ Augustine 1994, De spiritu et littera, ch. 37–38.
  52. ^ a b Augustine 1994, Epistle" 149.
  53. ^ Augustine 1994, Sermon, 304.2.
  54. ^ Augustine 1994, Contra Julianum, ch. 4.8.42.
  55. ^ Augustine 1994, Enchiridion, ch. 97, 103.
  56. ^ Augustine 1994, Epistle, ch. 217.19.
  57. ^ Augustine 1994, De correptione et gratia, ch. 15, 47.
  58. ^ Rist 1972, p. 239, Ch. Augustine on Free Will and Predestination.
  59. ^ Augustine 1994, Sermon, 214.4.
  60. ^ Augustine 1994, De symbolo ad catechumenos, ch. 2. "Facit quidquid vult: ipsa est omnipotentia. Facit quidquid bene vult, quidquid juste vult: quidquid autem male fit, non vult. Nemo resistit omnipotenti, ut non quod vult faciat."
  61. ^ Ogliari 2003.
  62. ^ Stewart 2014, p. 131. "[...] to [Augustine] we owe the term gratia praeveniens [...]".
  63. ^ a b McGrath 2001, p. 356.
  64. ^ Fitzgerald 1999.
  65. ^ McGrath 2005, p. 26.
  66. ^ McGrath 2005, p. 27.
  67. ^ Wiley 1940, p. 345.
  68. ^ McGrath 2005, pp. 107–110.
  69. ^ Bird 2021, p. 89-90. "The asymmetry in Augustine’s doctrine of grace is here plainly stated: if a man believes, it is because he has been irresistibly drawn; but if he does not believe, “his determination stands alone.” All credit for conversion is attributed to God; all guilt for refusal, to man. In coming to this position, Augustine had not abandoned his previously developed notions of adjutive grace and the power of delight, but now comprehended that both the adjutum and the delectatio must be of overwhelming strength. Salvation comes to a man when God does a work in him by his Spirit that can neither fail nor be refused."
  70. ^ Wilson 2018, p. 106.
  71. ^ González 1987, p. 44.
  72. ^ a b Hägglund 2007, pp. 139–140.
  73. ^ a b Pelikan 1987.
  74. ^ Wilson 2018, pp. 150, 160–162, 185–189.
  75. ^ Burnell 2005, pp. 85–86.
  76. ^ James 1998, p. 101.
  77. ^ Wilson 2018, pp. 184–189, 305.
  78. ^ Davis 1991, p. 213.
  79. ^ Newman 1904, p. 317.
  80. ^ Augustine 1994, pp. 97–98, Letter 226.4.
  81. ^ Augustine 1994, De dono perseverantiae 10.
  82. ^ Augustine 1994, Enchiridion. 100.
  83. ^ Augustine 1994, De Natura et Origine Animae 1.14, 4.16.
  84. ^ Augustine 1994, Sermon 229S.
  85. ^ Augustine 1994, Sermon 260D.1.
  86. ^ Augustine 1994, De Civitate Dei 14.26, 15.1.
  87. ^ Augustine 1994, Letter 204.2.
  88. ^ Chadwick 2001, pp. 123–124.
  89. ^ Augustine 1994, pp. 88–89, Letter 225.3.
  90. ^ Levering 2011, p. 37.
  91. ^ Denzinger 1954, ch. Second Council of Orange, art. 199. "We not only do not believe that some have been truly predestined to evil by divine power, but also with every execration we pronounce anathema upon those, if there are [any such], who wish to believe so great an evil."
  92. ^ James 1998, p. 102. "Some Scholars, especially Catholics, understand Augustine not to have articulated a doctrine of double predestination. Others, Protestants and secular scholars, are more divided on the issue. ... From our analysis, the Bishop of Hippo may well have believed in double predestination, though he does not unequivocally develop such a doctrine."
  93. ^ Levering 2011, p. 47–48.
  94. ^ James 1998, p. 103. "If one asks, whether double predestination is a logical implication or development of Augustine's doctrine, the answer must be in the affirmative."
  95. ^ McGrath 1998, pp. 160–163.
  96. ^ Sammons 2020, p. 40.
  97. ^ EncyclopaediaE 2024a.
  98. ^ dePrater 2015, p. 37.
  99. ^ Sammons 2020, p. 58.
  100. ^ Gracia & Noone 2003, pp. 660–661.
  101. ^ Sammons 2020, p. 56.
  102. ^ EncyclopaediaE 2024b.
  103. ^ Stacey 2024.
  104. ^ Ellingsen 2012, p. 241. "[Wycliffe] affirmation of prevenient grace took an Augustinian character with Wycliffe's understanding of predestination as an election either to salvation or to reprobation, which is otherwise known as "double predestination".
  105. ^ Schaff 1997b, § 75.
  106. ^ Durant 1957. "Johan von Wesel, an Erfurt professor, preached predestination and election by divine grace..."
  107. ^ Schaff 1997, § 76.
  108. ^ dePrater 2015, pp. 42–43.
  109. ^ George 1988, p. 49.
  110. ^ George 1988, p. 48.
  111. ^ Stephens 1986, p. 153.
  112. ^ a b McMahon 2012, pp. 7–9.
  113. ^ Calvin 1961, p. 63.
  114. ^ Cary 2008, pp. 122–124.
  115. ^ Warfield 1956, p. 22.
  116. ^ Helm 2001, pp. 161–189, ch. The Augustinian-Calvinist View.
  117. ^ Muller 2003, pp. 64–67.
  118. ^ a b Sproul 2016, p. 32.
  119. ^ Muller 2012, pp. 50–51.
  120. ^ Palmer 1996, p. 10.
  121. ^ James 1998, p. 30.
  122. ^ Trueman 1994, p. 69.
  123. ^ Calvin 1845, 3.21.7.
  124. ^ Kolakowski 1995, pp. 3–33.

Sources

edit
  • Adam, Alfred (1968). Das Fortwirken des Manichäismus bei Augustin (in German). Gütersloh: Mohn.
  • Arendzen, John (1913). "Manichæism" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  • Augustine (1887). Schaff, Philip (ed.). Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series. Vol. 5. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  • Augustine (1994). The Works of Saint Augustine: A New Translation for the 21st Century. Translated by Hill, Edmund. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press.
  • Bird, Benedict (2021). "The Development Of Augustine's Views On Free Will And Grace, And The Conflicting Claims To Consistency Therewith By John Owen And John Goodwin". Westminster Theological Journal. 83 (1): 73–101.
  • Blowers, Paul (1999). Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2 ed.). New York, NY: Garland Publishing.
  • Bonner, Gerald (1999). Bright, Pamela (ed.). Augustine and the Bible. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
  • Burnell, Peter (2005). The Augustinian Person. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
  • Calvin, John (1845). Institutes of the Christian Religion; a New Translation by Henry Beveridge. Vol. 2. Translated by Henry Beveridge. Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society. books 2, 3.
  • Calvin, John (1961). Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God. London: James Clarke & Co. Limited.
  • Cary, Phillip (2008). Inner Grace: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Chadwick, Henry (1965). "Justin Martyr's Defence of Christianity". Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 47 (2): 275–297. doi:10.7227/BJRL.47.2.3.
  • Chadwick, Henry (1966). Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
  • Chadwick, Henry (1983). Tracy, David; Lash, Nicholas (eds.). Cosmology and Theology. Edinburgh: T and T Clark.
  • Chadwick, Henry (1986). Augustine: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Chadwick, Henry (1991). Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Early Church. Aldershot, UK: Variorum.
  • Chadwick, Henry (1993). The Early Church. London: Penguin books.
  • Chadwick, Henry (2001). Augustine: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-285452-0.
  • Christie-Murray, David (1989). A history of heresy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Cross, F. L. (2005). The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Davis, John Jefferson (1991). "The Perseverance of the Saints: A History of the Doctrine" (PDF). Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. 34 (2).
  • Denzinger, Henricus (1954). Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum (30th ed.). Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder.
  • dePrater, William A. (2015). God Hovered Over the Waters: The Emergence of the Protestant Reformation. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4982-0454-5.
  • Durant, Will (1957). The Reformation. The Story of Civilization. Vol. 6. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  • Ellingsen, Mark (2012). Reclaiming Our Roots, Volume I: An Inclusive Introduction to Church History: The Late First Century to the Eve of the Reformation. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.
  • EncyclopaediaE (2024a). "Gregory Of Rimini". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  • EncyclopaediaE (2024b). "Ratramnus". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  • Fitzgerald, Allan D, ed. (1999). "Aratia Christi et de peccato originali, De". Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B Eerdmans.
  • Frend, William (1955). "Doctrine of man in the early church: an historical approach". Modern Churchman. 45 (3).
  • George, T. (1988). Theology of the Reformers. Nashville: Broadman Press.
  • González, Justo L. (1987). From Augustine to the Eve of the Reformation. A History of Christian Thought. Nashville: Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-0-687-17183-5.
  • Gracia, Jorge J. E.; Noone, Timothy (2003). A companion to philosophy in the middle ages. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. ISBN 1-4051-2309-5. OCLC 53333827.
  • Hägglund, Bengt (2007) [1968]. Teologins historia [History of Theology] (4 ed.). St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 978-0758613486.
  • Haight, Roger D. (1974). "Notes on the Pelagian Controversy". Philippine Studies. 22 (1): 26–48. JSTOR 426345413.
  • Hanegraaf, Wouter J., ed. (2005). Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. Vol. 2. Leiden: Brill.
  • Helm, Paul (2001). Bielby, James; Eddy, Paul (eds.). Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views. Downers Grove, IL: IVP.
  • Hwang, Alexander (2006). "Augustine's Various Interpretations of 1 Tim. 2:4". Studia Patristica. 43.
  • James, Frank A. (1998). Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer. Oxford: Clarendon.
  • Kolakowski, Leszek (1995). God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Latourette, Kenneth Scott (1945). A History of the Expansion of Christianity. New York: Harper & Bros. OCLC 277266105.
  • Levering, Matthew (2011). Predestination: Biblical and Theological Paths. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-960452-4.
  • McCann, Christine (2009). "The Influence of Manichaeism on Augustine of Hippo as a Spiritual Mentor". Cistercian Studies Quarterly. 44 (3): 255–277.
  • McGrath, Alister (1998). Iustitia Dei : a history of the Christian doctrine of justification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • McGrath, Alister E. (2001). Christian Theology: An Introduction. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.
  • McGrath, Alister E. (2005). Iustitia Dei: a history of the Christian doctrine of justification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • McIntire, C.T. (2005). Jones, Lindsay (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 5 (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
  • McKinley, O. Glenn (1965). Where Two Creeds Meet (PDF). Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City.
  • McMahon, C. Matthew (2012). Augustine's Calvinism: The Doctrines of Grace in Augustine's Writings. Coconut Creek, FL: Puritan Publications.
  • Miller, Mary (1964). Rufini Presbyteri: Liber de Fide. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America.
  • Mozley, James Bowling (1855). A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination. London: J. Murray.
  • Muller, Richard A. (2003). After Calvin: Studies in the Development of a Theological Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Muller, Richard A. (2012). Calvin and the Reformed Tradition. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic.
  • Newman, Albert Henry (1904). Manual of Church History. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society.
  • O'Donnell, James (2005). Augustine: A New Biography. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
  • Ogliari, Donato (2003). Gratia et Certamen: The Relationship between Grace and Free Will in the Discussion of Augustine with the so-called Semipelagians. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
  • Oort, Johannes (2006). "Augustine and Manichaeism: New Discoveries, New Perspectives". Verbum et Ecclesia. 27 (2): 710–728. doi:10.4102/VE.V27I2.172. hdl:2263/2551. S2CID 170573550.
  • Oort, Johannes (2010). "Manichaean Christians in Augustine's Life and Work". History and Religious Culture. 90.
  • Palmer, Edwin H. (1996). The Five Points of Calvinism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
  • Pelikan, Jaroslav (1987). "An Augustinian Dilemma: Augustine's Doctrine of Grace versus Augustine's Doctrine of the Church?". Augustinian Studies. 18: 1–28. doi:10.5840/augstudies1987186.
  • Rees, Brinley (1988). Pelagius: A Reluctant Heretic. Woodridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press.
  • Rist, John (1972). Markus, Robert (ed.). Augustine: A Collection of Critical Essays. New York: Doubleday.
  • Sammons, Peter (2020). Reprobation: from Augustine to the Synod of Dort: The Historical Development of the Reformed Doctrine of Reprobation. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Schaff, Philip (1997). History of the Christian Church. Vol. 3. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems.
  • Schaff, Philip (1997b). History of the Christian Church. Vol. 6. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems.
  • Sproul, R. C. (2011). Essential Truths of the Christian Faith. Carol Stream, IL: Tindale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Sproul, R. C. (2016). What Is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books. ISBN 978-0-8010-1846-6.
  • Stacey, John (2024). "John Wycliffe". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  • Stephens, W.P. (1986). The Theology of Huldrych Zwingli. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Stewart, H. F. (2014). Thirteen Homilies of St Augustine on St John XIV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Strong, James; McClintock, John (1880). "Augustine". The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. New York: Haper and Brothers.
  • Stroumsa, Gediliahu (1992). "Titus of Bostra and Alexander of Lycopolis: A Christian and a Platonic Refutation of Manichaean Dualism". In Richard T. Wallis; Jay Bregman (eds.). Neoplatonism and Gnosticism. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-2313-5.
  • Tertullian (1887). Schaff, Philip (ed.). Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 3. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  • Trueman, Carl R. (1994). Luther's Legacy: Salvation and English Reformers, 1525-1556. Oxford: Clarendon. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  • Warfield, Benjamin B. (1956). Craig, Samuel G. (ed.). Calvin and Augustine. Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co.
  • Widengren, Geo (1977). Der Manichäismus (in German). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  • Wiggers, Gustav Friedrich (1840). An Historical Presentation of Augustinism and Pelagianism from the Original Sources. Andover: Gould, Newman & Saxton. ISBN 978-0-608-36210-6.
  • Wiley, H. Orton (1940). Christian theology. Vol. 1. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press.
  • Wilson, Kenneth (2018). Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will: A Comprehensive Methodology. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Augustinian_soteriology&oldid=1255601904"