Nicodemus with Jesus From original sin and free will, let’s turn to grace. Regarding grace, Augustine wrote, We are truly free when God...

Adam’s enslavement to sin is such that he now seeks sin, for he sees it as his good. As Augustine writes, “He who is a slave to sin is...

Pelagius and Augustine Let’s look more closely at the ideas behind this great debate. Pelagius argued that human beings possess...

Pelagius Now let’s turn to The Pelagian Controversy (Why I am not an Arminian): Augustine’s conversion experience gave him personal...

I want to look at Augustine through the two major controversies he took on as Bishop of Hippo: the Donatist Controversy and the Pelagian...

After his conversion Augustine returned Africa. The Bishop of Hippo pressed him into ordination as a presbyter in 391. He established a...

Augustine moved to Faith Ingrained evil had more hold over me than unaccustomed good. The nearer approached the moment of time when I...

St. Augustine writing Confessions Augustine taught grammar and rhetoric in North Africa from 373 to 383 when he moved to Rome. There he...

Augustine of Hippo The first two and a half chapters of Romans argue that all human beings of every race and rank, of every creed and...

The 39 Articles of Religion Paul’s letter to the church in Rome gives us the core of the content of the following Anglican Articles of...