Augustine on the New Life in Christ

• Augustine on the New Life in Christ - N.R. Needham

This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of Dr. Needham's book The Triumph of Grace: Augustine's Writings on Salvation: Dr. Needham has done a great service to the Church in bringing together Augustine's quotes on topics related to regeneration/salvation. These are must-have quotes in any discussion showing Augustine's soteriology to be monergistic (the work of God alone), not synergistic (a cooperation between man and God). They show the dividing line between the biblical conception of grace and a humanistically-tainted conception of grace. It is the watershed between sola gratia and gratia + human merit. In each chapter Needham has chosen a theme relating to salvation (such as Creation, Fall and Original Sin, Free Will, Law and Grace, the Incarnation and the Atonement & Predestination and election) and has extracted a great number of St. Augustine's excellent quotations related to that topic. Dr. Needham has given us his generous permission to post chapter five entitled "The New Life in Christ" in which he gives a short introductory essay on the new birth followed by a great number of helpful quotes from Augustine regarding this issue. Please take time to read this. It is extremely helpful and useful in promoting clarity in the Church on the historic Christian position regarding the grace of God in salvation

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