Grace for Grace: The Debates after Augustine and Pelagius

by Augustine Casiday (Editor), Brian J. Matz (Editor)

Overview

The contributors to Grace for Grace focus on the debates on grace and free will inspired by Augustine's later teachings on grace and the various reactions to it. In both popular and scholarly literature, the conflict has been traditionally referred to as the "Semi-Pelagian Controversy." For several decades, scholars have distanced themselves from that overly-simplistic and inaccurate portrayal. This book intends to solidify a disparate movement of scholarly thought and offer a secure basis for renewed study of the persons, texts, and events of this critical period in the reception of Augustine in the Early Middle Ages. This volume brings together new perspectives, based on fresh study of a wealth of primary sources, from an international team of scholars to explore the intra- church debates over grace and free will, after Augustine and Pelagius. Contributors to this volume are: Rebecca Harden Weaver (Union Presbyterian Theological Seminary), Eugene Teselle (Vanderbilt University), Roland Teske S. J. (Marquette University), Alexander Y. Hwang (Saint Leo University), Raúl Villegas Marín (University of Barcelona), Jeremy Demulle (Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Tommy Hump- hries (Saint Leo University), Boniface Ramsey (Saint Joseph's Church, NY), Augustine Casiday (Cardiff University), Francis X. Gumerlock (Providence Theological Seminary), Matthew Pereira (Loyola University Marymount), Ralph Mathisen (University of Illinois), Brian J. Matz (Carroll College), and Nestor Kavvadas (Univerity of Tübingen)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813226019
Publisher:	The Catholic University of America Press
Publication date:	05/28/2014
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

ALEXANDER Y. HWANG is at Saint Leo University. BRIAN J. MATZ is at Carroll University. AUGUSTINE CASIDAY is at the University of Wales, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction Rebecca Harden Weaver ix

Abbreviations ix

1 The Background: Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy Eugene Teselle 1

2 Timothy 2:4 and the Beginnings of the Massalian Controversy Roland Teske, Sj 14

3 Pauci perfectae gratiae intrepidi amatores: the Augustinians in Marseilles Alexander Y.Hwang 35

4 Prosper's"Crypto-Pelagians": De ingratis and the Carmen de prouidentia Dei Raúl Villegas Marín Gerardo Rodríguez-Galarza) 51

5 "Les vers servent aux saints": Didactic Poetry and Anti-Heretical Polemic in the Carmen de Ingratis Jérémy Delmulle 72

6 Prosper's Pneumatology: the Development of an Augustinian Thomas L. Humphries JR. 97

7 John Cassian and Augustine Boniface Ramsey 114

8 Vincent of Lérins's Commonitorium, Objectiones, and Excerpta: Responding to Augustine's Legacy in Fifth-Century Gaul Augustine Casiday 131

9 Fulgentius of Ruspe on the Saving Will of God Francis X. Gumerlock 155

10 Augustine, Pelagius, and the Southern Gallic Tradition: Faustus of Riez's De gratia Dei Maththew J. Pereira 180

11 Caesarius of Arles, Prevenient Grace, and the Second Council of Orange Ralph W. Mathisen 208

12 Augustine, the Carolingians, and Double Predestination Brian J. Matz 235

13 An Eastern View: Theodore of Mopsuestia's Against the Defenders of Original Sin Nestor Kavvadas 271

Contributors 295

Index 297

Editorial Reviews

"a cohesive collection of scholarly essays on a vitally important but often neglected area of historical theology."—JP Blosser, CHOICE

"invites the reader to reconsider traditional ways of viewing the Augustinian debate Grace for Grace, then, is a book that meets the interests of a wide audience. Not only scholars of the Pelagian and 'semi-Pelagian' controversy will find it valuable, but also those interested in the theoogy of Grace and in the relations between Eastern and Western theology in Late Antiquity and in the early Middle Ages."—Giulio Malavasi - Padova University, Vigiliae Christianae

"This volume, representing the work of 14 significant scholars of the subject, goes a long way toward charting a direction for a thorough reappraisal of the post-Augustinian discussions about grace."—Donald Fairbairn, Augustiniana

"The collection is most well-suited to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists, both at Liberal Arts institutions and larger research universities."—Sean Otto, Wycliffe College, Univ Toronto, Theological Studies

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