Augustine bound the receiving of grace to membership in the visible church. He also supported, however, the doctrine that God chooses whom he will and gives them power to serve him, which makes salvation a matter between God and the individual. It was this doctrine, recovered in the Protestant Reformation, that gave the Reformers reason to deny that any church could come between the soul and its Maker.
Dünyada boğuldum, okyanus karanlığında nefes alırım belki
Surely my soul was prepared
to sail beyond the ocean.
Sayfa 116 - Penguin Books
Body of yin, soul of yang. Metal and fire unified. The outer and inner; microcosmos in my palm.
