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Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church, AD 337-461 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over forty years, Creeds, Councils and Controversies has been an essential primary source book for students of the later patristic period. Like its predecessor, A New Eusebius it documents the history of the early Church, covering AD 377 to 461. Stevenson offers Persecution in Persia, The Council of Antioch, The Creed of Jerusalem and The Synod of Ashtishat. Authors of these documents include...

teacher, that their adherents are also called Caelestians. These men are such opponents of the grace of God … that without it, as they believe, man can do all the commandments of God. But, if this were true, God would evidently have said in vain, Without me, ye can do nothing.1 After a time, Pelagius was accused by the brethren of ascribing nothing to the grace of God for the purpose of keeping his commandments. He admitted the charge so far as, not indeed to put grace before free will, but to supplant
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