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The paper aims to provide an overview on Augustine’s communication strategies in two specific controversial areas, Donatism and Pelagianism, paying special attention to the rhetorical use of the concepts of “holiness/saints” and “martyrdom/martyrs”.
Elena Zocca
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In this article, the author argues on the importance of the Reformation. Despite over 500 years has passed since the reformation, the roman catholic church has not moved towards the true understanding of the gospel, in terms of justification as being ...
Michael Horton
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The Doctrine of Exemplarism: A Symbolic Attempt to Escape the Pelagian Heresy
Heresies are intrinsically intertwined with the evolution and inner growth of the very religions that denounce them. They serve as theological junctures, challenging and thus refining the orthodoxy of religious beliefs. The Pelagian heresy touches on one
Liran Shia Gordon
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In the Service of the Empire: Pope Zosimus and the Roman Synod of 417
Introduction. The brief pontificate of Pope Zosimus (417–418) was marked by the Roman Synod in September 417, the decisions of which were of great importance both for the subsequent church-administrative development of Southern Gaul and for the ...
Mikhail V. Gratsianskiy +1 more
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Tischner’s dispute with Kołakowski over grace and freedom
The present text addresses one of the stages of the controversy over grace and freedom originated by Pelagius and Saint Augustine. The protagonists of this stage are Leszek Kołakowski and Józef Tischner. As he was reconstructing the 17th-century debates
Miłosz Hołda
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Translating Romans 5:12 in the early 16th century. Franciscus Titelmans’s polemic against humanists
Translating the Bible has never been an easy task, least of all at the times of theological controversy. A New Latin translation by Erasmus of Rotterdam, executed on the eve of the Reformation, met much criticism on philological and theological level ...
Tomasz Karol Mantyk
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St. Augustine’s treatise ‘’On the spirit and the letter’’: its historical background and principal set of ideas [PDF]
This article is devoted to the treatise On the Spirit and the Letter, one of the earliest anti-Pelagian works of St. Augustine. It describes the historical and literary context of the initial stage of the Pelagian controversy, which had a decisive infl ...
Dmitrii Smirnov
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«Liber de fide» by Rufinus the Syrian and its contribution to the Pelagian controversies of the early 5th century. Pt. 1 [PDF]
«Liber de fide» by Rufinus the Syrian is a source whose significance in the history of the Pelagian controversy is assessed in different ways. The aim of the publication is to establish the place of this work in the theological and literary context of ...
Vasily Kuleshin
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Augustine’s Enchiridion: An Anti-Pelagian Interpretation of the Creed
At first glance, Augustine did not combine his soteriology and his Trinitarian doctrine in his anti-Pelagian oeuvre. Therefore, this article pursues the more hidden and implicit connections between these topics. The starting point of this endeavour is an
David Burkhart Janssen
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Le passage de Célestius à Carthage : un moment clé du pélagianisme
During Spring and Summer 411, Pelagius and his closest pupil, the then-unknown Caelestius, arrived at Carthage. The former quickly left Africa for the East, while the latter took advantage of his stay in the African capital to spread their doctrine ...
Zohra Picard-Mawji
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