John Cassian: source notes
John Cassian: source notes
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Topic: salvation
See salvation reasoning.
SAL S1: Conference 13.8
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/350813.htm
- Text: “when He sees in us some beginnings of a good will, He at once enlightens it and strengthens it and urges it on towards salvation, increasing that which He Himself implanted or which He sees to have arisen from our own efforts.”
- Context: Note the disjunction: “He Himself implanted or … arisen from our own efforts”. This is the position later labelled “semi-Pelagian” and opposed by Prosper and by Orange canon 5.
- Bears on: S1, S2
- Status: verified (English)
Doctrine S11X
See S11X reasoning.
S11X S1: Conference XIII (Abbot Chaeremon) ch. 3
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/350813.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “stiff neck, and (to use the words of Scripture) uncircumcised ears, Acts 7:51 we shall deserve to hear the words of Jeremiah: Shall he that falls, not rise again? And he that is turned away, shall he not turn again? Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? They have stiffened their necks and refused to return. …”
- Context: On following the grace that draws us.
- Bears on: S11.3
- Status: verified (English)
S11X S2: Conference XIII ch. 8
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/350813.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “And when He sees in us some beginnings of a good will, He at once enlightens it and strengthens it and urges it on towards salvation, increasing that which He Himself implanted or which He sees to have arisen from our own efforts.”
- Context: God strengthens the first stirrings of a good will.
- Bears on: S11.3
- Status: verified (English)