The Church Fathers · c. 470
On Grace
De Gratia
Faustus of Riez · c. 405 – c. 490
What it is
A monk of Lérins turned bishop argues against absolute predestination on one side and against Pelagius on the other: grace is necessary throughout, but the will makes a real beginning, and God's foreknowledge is not God's decree.
Why it lasted
The fullest statement of the position later called semi-Pelagian, from the man the Council of Orange was convened to answer sixty years later. The Gallic monastic tradition never fully accepted Augustine, and this is why.
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Where to read it
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