VI. Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation. Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that...

Historically (starting with 6 and going as high as 42), the Articles were ratified by Parliament in their final form of 39 in 1571. They...

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer wrote the first Book of Common Prayer and drafted most of the Articles of Religion.  Of the Articles he wrote,...

Augustine of Hippo God is under no compulsion to save anyone.  Showing his mercy by saving one is no injustice to the one not chosen. ...

Rome fell in 410.  The last twenty years of Augustine’s life cannot be disassociated from this event.  His writings stand as the...

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...