The Gift of perseverance is the doctrine of Augustine of Hippo that persevering in the faith is a gift given by God, but a person can never know if they have the gift.[1] According to Augustine, without having the gift of perseverance a person is damned, even if he seems to have been elected by grace.[2] Augustine himself also believed that Cyprian held a similar view about perseverance being a work of God, and thus foreshadowing the Augustinian view.[3] Some Calvinists argue that the Augustinian view foreshadows the Calvinist doctrine of perseverance of the saints.[4]
Augustine believed that one receives the Holy Spirit at their baptism, which produces salvation. However, Augustine wanted to explain why some regenerate people fall away from the faith, even though both groups had the Holy Spirit. Thus Augustine concluded that some people are given a second gift of perseverance, which is only given to some regenerate people.[5]
Doctrineedit
Augustine defined perseverance as gift by which one perseveres up to the end of their lives, if a person dies as a believer they had been given the gift, but if one dies as an unbeliever, even if he used to once believe, he did not have this gift given. Augustine believed that the gift can be received through prayer, but when one person has the gift, they can't lose it.[6]
^Cary, Phillip (2008-03-26). Inner Grace: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN978-0-19-533648-1.
^"Gift of persevarance Augustine - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
^Komline, Han-luen Kantzer (2019-11-13). Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-094882-5.
^McMahon, C. Matthew (2013-01-03). Augustine's Calvinism: The Doctrines of Grace in Augustine's Writings. Puritan Publications. ISBN978-1-937466-83-1.
^Burnell, Peter (2005). The Augustinian Person. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. pp. 85–86.
^Hwang, Alexander Y. (May 2009). Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace: The Life and Thought of Prosper of Aquitaine. CUA Press. ISBN978-0-8132-1670-6.
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On the Predestination of the Saints
January 01, 1970
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