Prayer is powerful. It is powerful not because prayer itself is powerful, but because the God to Whom we pray is powerful and ...

It tickles me that sometimes when reading Augustine, I have to look at the book cover again to remind myself I am not reading Luther. Here i...

"A people is an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love, then, in order to...

"Now there was, no doubt, a decided merit in the Apostle Paul, but it was an evil one...For his call, however, from heaven and his conv...

“God, therefore, heals us not only that He may blot out the sin which we have committed, but, furthermore, that He may enable us even to avo...

“As to the reason why He wills to convert some, and to punish others turning away, - although nobody can justly censure the Merciful One in ...

"The conscience is not to be healed, if it be not wounded. You must preach and press the law, commination, the judgment to come, with m...

I'm re-reading Augustine's Confessions . Having just finished Book 9, I again was exposed to one of my favorite parts. Augustine has...

For a class, I am (re)reading Augustine's Confessions. It has been four years since I last read them (way too long!). His life story dri...

Most have heard of Speaker Pelosi's recent theological pontifications. Pelosi declared that Augustine of Hippo wrote that a baby was not...

In Augustine’s debate with the Pelagians, the doctrine of Original Sin came to the forefront very early on. The denial of Original Sin by th...

[sorry, I am low on time, so Part 2 may be a little sketchy and less complete than my original outline in teaching this. I might correct it ...

When explaining the Christian beliefs, eventually you will come across a wide spread belief in American culture of a benevolent passive God....

"There is always within us a free will - but it is not always good; for it is either free from righteousness when it serves sin, - and ...

I am loving Peter Brown's biography of Augustine of Hippo. I am sure I am not qualified to explain who the Donatists were. But in short...

In the beginning of Book 9 Where Augustine says "But where through so many years was my freedom of will?" I think he basically say...

[Read my posts on Augustine on Free Choice and Grace first] Question: Can freedom resist Grace? Augustine writes on pg 13 - "Deliver al...

[Read my Augustine on Free Choice post first] 1. The Creation of the Faculty of the Will pg 131 - "[with your grace]...so that he who s...

Okay, I went super dork and just outlined everything. I've actually been trying to answer these questions in my mind for a year so here ...

There's some good stuff in just the first few pages. Some of his sentences could be books. A few such lines that hit me: "My faith,...