De gratia et libero arbitrio (CCEL)
A Treatise on grace and free will
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A select library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. Edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York. In connection with a number of patristic scholars of Europe and America. Volume V - St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings. T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1887 (Translation, Englisch)
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CPL 352
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5. Jh.
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- Two letters written by Augustin to Valentinus and the Monks of Adrumetum
- A Treatise on grace and free will
- Chapter 1 [I.]--The Occasion and Argument of This Work.
- Chapter 2 [II.]--He Proves the Existence of Free Will in Man from the Precepts Addressed to Him by God.
- Chapter 3.--Sinners are Convicted When Attempting to Excuse Themselves by Blaming God, Because They Have Free Will.
- Chapter 4.--The Divine Commands Which are Most Suited to the Will Itself Illustrate Its Freedom.
- Chapter 5.--He Shows that Ignorance Affords No Such Excuse as Shall Free the Offender from Punishment; But that to Sin with Knowledge is a Graver Thing Than to Sin in Ignorance.
- Chapter 6 [IV.]--God's Grace to Be Maintained Against the Pelagians; The Pelagian Heresy Not an Old One.
- Chapter 7.--Grace is Necessary Along with Free Will to Lead a Good Life.
- Chapter 8.--Conjugal Chastity is Itself the Gift of God.
- Chapter 9.--Entering into Temptation. Prayer is a Proof of Grace.
- Chapter 10 [V.]--Free Will and God's Grace are Simultaneously Commended.
- Chapter 11.--Other Passages of Scripture Which the Pelagians Abuse.
- Chapter 12.--He Proves Out of St. Paul that Grace is Not Given According to Men's Merits.
- Chapter 13 [VI.]--The Grace of God is Not Given According to Merit, But Itself Makes All Good Desert.
- Chapter 14.--Paul First Received Grace that He Might Win the Crown.
- Chapter 15.--The Pelagians Profess that the Only Grace Which is Not Given According to Our Merits is that of the Forgiveness of Sins.
- Chapter 16 [VII.]--Paul Fought, But God Gave the Victory: He Ran, But God Showed Mercy.
- Chapter 17.--The Faith that He Kept Was the Free Gift of God.
- Chapter 18.--Faith Without Good Works is Not Sufficient for Salvation.
- Chapter 19 [VIII.]--How is Eternal Life Both a Reward for Service and a Free Gift of Grace?
- Chapter 20.--The Question Answered. Justification is Grace Simply and Entirely, Eternal Life is Reward and Grace.
- Chapter 21 [IX.]--Eternal Life is "Grace for Grace."
- Chapter 22 [X.]--Who is the Transgressor of the Law? The Oldness of Its Letter. The Newness of Its Spirit.
- Chapter 23 [XI.]--The Pelagians Maintain that the Law is the Grace of God Which Helps Us Not to Sin.
- Chapter 24 [XII.]--Who May Be Said to Wish to Establish Their Own Righteousness. "God's Righteousness," So Called, Which Man Has from God.
- Chapter 25 [XIII.]--As The Law is Not, So Neither is Our Nature Itself that Grace by Which We are Christians.
- Chapter 26.--The Pelagians Contend that the Grace, Which is Neither the Law Nor Nature, Avails Only to the Remission of Past Sins, But Not to the Avoidance of Future Ones.
- Chapter 27 [XIV.]--Grace Effects the Fulfilment of the Law, the Deliverance of Nature, and the Suppression of Sin's Dominion.
- Chapter 28.--Faith is the Gift of God.
- Chapter 29.--God is Able to Convert Opposing Wills, and to Take Away from the Heart Its Hardness.
- Chapter 30.--The Grace by Which the Stony Heart is Removed is Not Preceded by Good Deserts, But by Evil Ones.
- Chapter 31 [XV.]--Free Will Has Its Function in the Heart's Conversion; But Grace Too Has Its.
- Chapter 32 [XVI.]--In What Sense It is Rightly Said That, If We Like, We May Keep God's Commandments.
- Chapter 33 [XVII.]--A Good Will May Be Small and Weak; An Ample Will, Great Love. Operating and Co-operating Grace.
- Chapter 34.--The Apostle's Eulogy of Love. Correction to Be Administered with Love.
- Chapter 35.--Commendations of Love.
- Chapter 36.--Love Commended by Our Lord Himself.
- Chapter 37 [XVIII.]--The Love Which Fulfils the Commandments is Not of Ourselves, But of God.
- Chapter 38.--We Would Not Love God Unless He First Loved Us. The Apostles Chose Christ Because They Were Chosen; They Were Not Chosen Because They Chose Christ.
- Chapter 39.--The Spirit of Fear a Great Gift of God.
- Chapter 40 [XIX.]--The Ignorance of the Pelagians in Maintaining that the Knowledge of the Law Comes from God, But that Love Comes from Ourselves.
- Chapter 41 [XX.]--The Wills of Men are So Much in the Power of God, that He Can Turn Them Whithersoever It Pleases Him.
- Chapter 42 [XXI]--God Does Whatsoever He Wills in the Hearts of Even Wicked Men.
- Chapter 43.--God Operates on Men's Hearts to Incline Their Wills Whithersoever He Pleases.
- Chapter 44 [XXII.]--Gratuitous Grace Exemplified in Infants.
- Chapter 45 [XXIII]--The Reason Why One Person is Assisted by Grace, and Another is Not Helped, Must Be Referred to the Secret Judgments of God.
- Chapter 46 [XXIV.]--Understanding and Wisdom Must Be Sought from God.