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De Gratia: Faustus of Riez's Treatise on Grace and Its Place in the History of Theology

De Gratia: Faustus of Riez's Treatise on Grace and Its Place in the History of Theology

Smith, Thomas A.

Hardcover

Series: Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, Book 4

CatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0268008663
ISBN13: 9780268008666
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Mar 1 1990
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The treatise De gratia was written in 474 by Faustus, bishop of Riez in southern Gaul, against the predestinarian doctrine of Lucidus, a Gallic priest. The present study reexamines that treatise. The need for such a reexamination becomes clear as one reads the many and varied, and often polemical, estimates of Faustus's doctrinal orthodoxy. It is hoped that in the course of such study historical, theological, and literary in its scope-we will be better equipped to evaluate the many interpretations of Faustus. Perhaps, too, we will be able to shed some helpful new light on the ways in which Augustinian teachings on grace were received in Gaul between St. Augustine's death in 430 and the so-called second council of Orange in 529. In these introductory remarks we will survey in brief scope the reception accorded the De gratia in the history of Christian thought.

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