St. Augustine the Monergist on Grace and Free Will
So what’s Monergism anyway? According to my alma mater (wikipedia): “Monergism describes the position in Christian theology of those who believe that God, through the Holy Spirit, works to bring about...
View ArticleSt. Monica
For those of you who haven’t read the Confessions of St. Augustine, St. Monica, is remembered as the gracious doctor’s mother. She prayed for Augustine for over seventeen years, that he would be...
View ArticleFeast of St. Augustine
Today the Latin / Western Church commemorates St. Augustine of Hippo. One great ecclesiastical historian around here has called him the grandfather of the Western Church. Jaroslav Pelikan said that...
View ArticleMormons, Mennonites, Roman Catholics and the IKEA Gospel of Fairness
“With repentance we can steadily improve in our capacity to live the celestial law, for we recognize that “he who is not able to abide the law of a celestial kingdom cannot abide a celestial glory”...
View ArticleLutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans and the Unfair Gospel of Christian Bible
“We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore that we are justified by faith only is a...
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