The Church Fathers · 412
On the Spirit and the Letter
De Spiritu et Littera
Augustine of Hippo · 354–430
What it is
The first sustained answer to Pelagius: the law shows what to do but cannot supply the will to do it, which only grace poured into the heart provides.
Why it lasted
The book Luther read as confirming his own reading of Paul, and the opening of the Western doctrine of prevenient grace.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
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