Not Without Us

by Stucco, Guido

• ISBN13: 9781587365331
• ISBN10: 1587365332
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Fenestra Books

Summary

Contrary to popular assumption, the doctrine of predestination is part of the Catholic Church's teachings. The research in "Not Without Us" aims at showing how saints, bishops, and theologians from Augustine to the Second Council of Orange (529 a.d.) upheld this theology and even defended it. Together with a forthcoming volume, covering the developments in the history of this doctrine from Orange to Thomas Aquinas, author Guido Stucco outlines, in an easily accessible way to nonspecialists, the Catholic Church's comprehensive, pre-Reformation understanding of predestination.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(13)
CHAPTER ONE Augustine and the Massilians	24	(25)
Predestination in Early Church History
History of the Semipelagian Controversy
Phase One: The Hadrumetum Crisis
Augustine's Letter 214 to Valentinus
Augustine's Letter 215 to Valentinus
Augustine's Letter 217 to Vitalis
On Grace and Free Will
On Correction and Grace
Phase Two: The Disagreement with the Massilienses
Hilary's Letter to Augustine
Prosper's Letter to Augustine
The Predestination of the Saints
The Gift of Perseverance
Cassign's Conference XIII
CHAPTER TWO Prosper and Arnobius	49	(38)
Phase Three: The Contribution of Prosper of Aquitaine and of Arnobius the Younger
St. Prosper
Poem about the Ungrateful
Against the Lecturer
Answers to the Objections of the Lying Gauls
Answers to the Vincentian Articles
Indiculus Caelestini
The Call of All Nations
Memorandum
Arnobius the Younger
Praedestinatus: Dating and Structure
Praedestinatus: Book I
Praedestinatus: Book II
Praedestinatus: Book III
The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart and the Vessels of Honor and Shame
CHAPTER THREE Fulgentius of Ruspe and Faustus of Riez	87	(25)
Phase Four: Faustus of Riez and Fulgentius of Ruspe
Faustus of Riez
The Grace of God and Free Will
Fulgentius of Ruspe
To Monimus
Letter XV
Letter XVII
The Truth about Predestination and the Grace of God
The Incarnation and Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Pseudo-Fulgentius' Book concerning Predestination and Grace
Petrus Diaconus, The Incarnation and Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ
CHAPTER FOUR Caesarius of Arles and Orange II	112	(16)
Phase Five: Caesarius of Arles, the Second Council of Orange and the End of the Semipelagian Controversy
De gratia
The Second Council of Orange
Pope Boniface II's Approval of Orange II
CHAPTER FIVE Evaluation of the Controversy	128	(34)
Final Remarks Concerning the Writers Involved in the Controversy
Evaluation of Semipelagianism
General Assessment of the Semipelagian Controversy
Three Theological Features of AS
Pastoral features of AS
APPENDIX A Some Biblical Examples of "deserunt et deseruntur"	162	(2)
APPENDIX B Some Biblical Quotes Concerning God's Grace	164	(11)
APPENDIX C Prayers from the Roman Missal	175	(18)
APPENDIX D Arnobius the Younger's Praedestinatus: Books II and III	193	(71)
Bibliography	264	(5)
End Notes	269