
April 22, 2011
Differences between Semi-Pelagianism and Arminian Beliefs
Semi-Pelagianism While not denying the necessity of Grace for salvation, Semi-Pelagianism maintains that the first…
“It is Augustine who gave us the Reformation.” So wrote B. B. Warfield in his assessment of the influence of Augustine on church history. It is not only that Luther was an Augustinian monk, or that Calvin quoted Augustine more than any other theologian that provoked Warfield’s remark. Rather, it was that the Reformation witnessed the ultimate triumph of Augustine’s doctrine of grace over the legacy of the Pelagian view of man.