The Catholic Church, Even to This Day, Does Not Recognize That Augustine Didn't Believe in Free Will

The catholic church does not readily admit that augustine taught double predestination, which he did three or four times in his writings. So what happens is, since blagius, just as you mention, is vilified. And so he ends up, anything relatid to that gets shot down. But then it's not until a years later when aquinas picks up augustine and he massages some of these things to make him still fit into the traditional view. In a book right now on god's sovereignty, i'm looking at the historical impact all the way from ah augustine, even before then, all the way up through the modern period,. and how

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