Augustine eventually cannot even experience himself in his earthly life without the assumptive belief of his righteous interpretation of “God” overseeing both his life and that of the entire world and history around him.
From The Political and Social Ideas of Saint Augustine, Herbert Deane, 1963.
The two cities, omniscient foreknowledge, unmeritable minority salvation, among them.
I think I will cheer for Pelagius, and for later example Goethe, et al.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 