Interesting Discussion on Augustine, Monergism, Synergism and Compatibilism Here
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 07:58PM
Embryo Parson in Anglican Catholic Church, Anglo-Catholicism, English Reformation, Evangelical and Catholic, Grace, Justification By Faith, Predestination and Free Will, The Gospel, Traditional Anglicanism

Augustine and Monergism

Despite the way the contributors to this discussion finesse the matter, which they appear to be doing in the interest of bringing clarity the terms "monergism" and "synergism", the fact remains that Augustine himself brought clarity to the matter in his later works.  A man feels after and finds God ONLY because God causes him to will so, and that's why, at a basic level, Augustine is a monergist.  Salvation, which involves man's "yes",  is all one "work" of God.  Man's "yes" is not a complementary "work" that emerges from some ontological sphere over which God, either by nature or by choice, is not sovereign.

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