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In Salvation by Grace, Matthew Barrett comprehensively defends the doctrine of monergism (the teaching that regeneration is exclusively the work of God) primarily by looking at Scripture but also by examining Reformed theologians and confessions. Barrett also provides a helpful evaluation of both the Arminian position and contemporary attempts to chart a middle course between Calvinistic and...

increase to what he himself planted and saw arise from our own efforts.”19 Therefore, while Pelagius taught a humanistic monergism and Augustine a divine monergism, the Semi-Pelagians taught a human-initiated synergism. Man is able to take the first move toward God, cooperating with or resisting his grace.20 Though Semi-Pelagianism won victories in Gaul at the Synods of Arles (472) and Lyons (475), it was condemned by the Synod of Orange (529), and yet Orange did not return completely to Augustinianism,
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