The Medieval Church · c. 1344
On the Cause of God Against Pelagius
Thomas Bradwardine · c. 1300–1349
What it is
A mathematician's defence of grace and predestination, arguing more geometrico against contemporaries he thought had made salvation depend on human initiative.
Why it lasted
The most rigorous Augustinian theology of the fourteenth century, admired by Wycliffe and by the Reformers after him.
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