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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.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Blaise Pascal, a Roman Catholic but a follower of the Port Royal, Jansenist movement, which was regarded by its conservative Catholic enemies as tantamount to Protestantism—owing to its great appreciation for St. Augustine and central stress on salvation by grace through faith.
Joseph M. Holden • The Comprehensive Guide to Apologetics
St Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Jesuits, who went so far as to proclaim that he would have counted it a cause for pride had he been of Jewish extraction.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
St Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Jesuits, who went so far as to proclaim that he would have counted it a cause for pride had he been of Jewish extraction.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
