Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

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Summary of Contents.
I AOE
The doctrine of Predestination profitable or mischievous accord
ing to the moral principle of those who receive it . .42
The feeling of being predestinate not a literal certainty in
those who hold it, only a . . strong impression .45
CHAPTER III.
THE PELAGIAN CONTROVERSY.
History favours the assertion that Pelagianism was a reaction
from Augustinianism........
Formula nihil botiimi sine gratia satisfied the Primitive Church .
When minds began to reason the combination of grace and free
will issued in two opposing assertions ....
The Pelagian position
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S. Augustine s objection to the Pelagian doctrine of grace
In what sense the Pelagian argument lay at the root of the
errors of Pelagianism . . . . . . . .
Doctrine of perfectibility as held by Pelagius and his opponents
Heads of the great controversy the power of the will, the
nature of virtue and vice, and the Divine justice
Pelagius appeal to instinctive sense of freedom of the will ;
S. Augustine s counter-appeal to the sense of sin
of custom over the will . . . .
The power
Pelagius relied on sense of bare ability in spite of habit .
And disputed the fact of hereditary sin .....
On trial of the will as condition of highest human virtue .
Trial not necessary to all goodness
Power of choosing good or evil not perfection of man s nature .
Christian doctrine of grace in accordance with our nature ;
reduction of all virtue to effort an artificial limit .
Pelagian
The question of the Divine justice ......
S. Augustine s argument stated ......
The general fact of human sinfulness requires some law of sin
in our nature to explain it .
Remarks on the argument which infers sin from pain
The Manichean and Pelagian theories on the existence of evil .
Between these the Church has taken a middle course
Bearing of the Pelagian arguments on the Catholic doctrines of
the original state of man, the Incarnation, and the Atonement
S. Augustine on the first sin of man .....
The Pelagian doctrine in denying the Fall rejected Paradise .
Its bearing on the Incarnation.......
S. Augustine s answer ........
The Pelagian fundamentally opposed to the doctrine of the
Atonement. .........
The philosophical fault in Pelagianism
Its low moral tendency ........