Grace for Grace: The Debates after Augustine and Pelagius

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The contributors to Grace for Grace focus on the debates on grace and free will inspired by Augustine's later teachings on grace and the various reactions to it. In both popular and scholarly literature, the conflict has been traditionally referred to as the "Semi-Pelagian Controversy." For several decades, scholars have distanced themselves from that overly-simplistic and inaccurate portrayal. This book intends to solidify a disparate movement of scholarly thought and offer a secure basis for renewed study of the persons, texts, and events of this critical period in the reception of Augustine in the Early Middle Ages. This volume brings together new perspectives, based on fresh study of a wealth of primary sources, from an international team of scholars to explore the intra- church debates over grace and free will, after Augustine and Pelagius. Contributors to this volume are: Rebecca Harden Weaver (Union Presbyterian Theological Seminary), Eugene Teselle (Vanderbilt University), Roland Teske S. J. (Marquette University), Alexander Y. Hwang (Saint Leo University), Raúl Villegas Marín (University of Barcelona), Jeremy Demulle (Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Tommy Hump- hries (Saint Leo University), Boniface Ramsey (Saint Joseph's Church, NY), Augustine Casiday (Cardiff University), Francis X. Gumerlock (Providence Theological Seminary), Matthew Pereira (Loyola University Marymount), Ralph Mathisen (University of Illinois), Brian J. Matz (Carroll College), and Nestor Kavvadas (Univerity of Tübingen) Preface ix Introduction by Rebecca Harden Weaver xi Abbreviations xxvii Chronology of Key Events xxix 1. The Background: Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy 1 Eugene Teselle 2. 1 Timothy 2:4 and the Beginnings of the Massalian Controversy 14 Roland Teske, SJ 3. Pauci perfectae gratiae intrepidi amatores: The Augustinians in Marseilles 35 Alexander Y. Hwang 4. Prosper’s “Crypto-Pelagians”: De ingratis and the Carmen de prouidentia Dei 51 Raúl Villegas Marín (translated by Gerardo Rodríguez-Galarza) 5. “Les vers servent aux saints”: Didactic Poetry and Anti-Heretical Polemic in the Carmen de Ingratis 72 Jérémy Delmulle 6. Prosper’s Pneumatology: The Development of an Augustinian 97 Thomas L. Humphries Jr. 7. John Cassian and Augustine 114 Boniface Ramsey 8. Vincent of Lérins’s Commonitorium, Objectiones, and Excerpta: Responding to Augustine’s Legacy in Fifth-Century Gaul 131 Augustine Casiday 9. Fulgentius of Ruspe on the Saving Will of God 155 Francis X. Gumerlock 10. Augustine, Pelagius, and the Southern Gallic Tradition: Faustus of Riez’s De gratia Dei 180 Matthew J. Pereira 11. Caesarius of Arles, Prevenient Grace, and the Second Council of Orange 208 Ralph W. Mathisen 12. Augustine, the Carolingians, and Double Predestination 235 Brian J. Matz 13. An Eastern View: Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Against the Defenders of Original Sin 271 Nestor Kavvadas Contributors 295 Index 297