Early Church · 427

On Rebuke and Grace

Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

A companion piece to On Grace and Free Will, also sent to Hadrumetum, where some had concluded that if grace governs all things then rebuke of the erring is pointless. Augustine answers that correction is itself one of the means God uses to call his elect, and he draws here his mature distinction between the grace given to Adam, which made it possible not to sin, and the greater grace of glory, which will make it impossible to sin. The treatise gives one of his fullest accounts of the gift of perseverance.

1.5 hrs total · 49 chapters