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The doctrines of grace are often known as the five points of Calvinism, but they were not the invention of John Calvin or his reforming cohorts of the sixteenth century. Rather, they are biblical doctrines, as Dr. Steven J. Lawson demonstrated in his book Foundations of Grace (2006). Now, in Pillars of Grace, Dr. Lawson shows that the doctrines of grace have been understood and taught—sometimes...

Over the next century, those who rejected the views of Pelagius and Augustine, spearheaded by John Cassian (360–433), advanced the mediating position of Semi-Pelagianism. The pivotal tenet of this view is the priority of the human will over the will of God in the work of salvation. The grace of God, it claims, always cooperates with the human will for its advantage. Fallen humanity possesses “some seeds of goodness” that can be “quickened by the assistance of
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