In article <I8ZFj.2004$VK4.1169@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Matthew Johnson" <matthew_member@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> It is to try to show a third way
>Enjoying your posts so much these days Matthew.
Thanks for the note of appreciation.
> I apologize in advance, but
>I don't remember what you have written about the "third way". Could you
>summarize what that way is for us?
I did not use the exact phrase "third way", at least not that I recall. So
a
simple Google search would not turn it up. However, there were many posts.
Probably the best and most complete is my hasty translation of a sermon of
St.
Symeon the New Theologian, which Google lists as being at message-id:
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I also commented somewhere that even St. Augustine, who is usually upheld
as the
champion of predestination, admitted that Scripture also teaches
free-will, and
realized that he could not reconcile the two. But instead of letting
predestination overrule free-will, he simply stopped there, realizing he
was
facing a line he must not cross. This too, is the third way (if not a
fourth:
I'll let you read the St. Symeon sermon and decide).
Today's predestinarians do not show this holy restraint.
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Subducat se sibi ut haereat Deo
Quidquid boni habet tribuat illi a quo factus est
(Sanctus Aurelius Augustinus, Ser. 96)
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