Augustine of Hippo · Theology
Augustine’s doctrine of original sin and grace grew from a problem he could not escape: why he could clearly see the good and still be unable to will it. His answer reshaped Western Christianity - and provoked its first great theological war.
You learned that Augustine explained moral failure by a will divided against itself, healed only by grace. Reconstruct his argument, and state his opponent Pelagius’s objection, in your own words.
Leads to Pelagius.
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