Justified
Puritan Board Sophomore
How exactly would you define Pelagianism? The reason I ask is that the way people often use it would seem to subsume Augustine as either a pelagian or semi-pelagian. People often mean by Pelagianism a rejection of justification by faith alone. Augustine didn't believe in justification sola fide.
I tend to think/believe that Augustinianism and Pelagianism has to do more with sola gratia. Augustine's belief that God's grace is the operative force that initiates, brings about, and preserves ultimate salvation sets him off from later medievals, who believed that those who do what is within in them God does not withhold grace. Am I right in my assessment of Augustine's relation to the late medievals? Were many of the late medievals semi-pelagians?
I tend to think/believe that Augustinianism and Pelagianism has to do more with sola gratia. Augustine's belief that God's grace is the operative force that initiates, brings about, and preserves ultimate salvation sets him off from later medievals, who believed that those who do what is within in them God does not withhold grace. Am I right in my assessment of Augustine's relation to the late medievals? Were many of the late medievals semi-pelagians?