Anti-pelagianism and the resistibility of grace

Abstract

I argue that accepting the resistibility of grace does not entail accepting either Pelagianism or semi-Pelagianism, and offer seven models for the offer of grace that allow for the resistibility of grace: respectively, covenant theology, synergism, and five models that posit no natural human act of acceptance (while allowing for natural human acts of resistance). Of these, I conclude that all but covenant theologies avoid semi-Pelagianism, and that all avoid Pelagianism, as defined at the Second Council of Orange.