Sublime

In book eight of his Confessions, the fourth-century Christian theologian Saint Augustine describes his conversion not only as a pathway to a more spiritual life but also as a commitment to a community of people whom he needs and loves.

John 15:1

If Augustine spent half his life battling the heresy of Pelagianism—the pretension that the human will was sufficient to choose its good—it’s because he saw it as the great lie that left people enchained to their dissolute wills. And no one is more Pelagian than we moderns.

should be proclaimed as able to save all who come to him.

Melanchthon had begun to employ the notion of the so-called

Morton Kelsey wrote, “The church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.”

antinomianism