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$\"Augustine\"$ Lex Loizides tells us more in a post whose title provocatively states: \u201cFrom cessationism to joy \u2014 how a healing increased Augustine\u2019s understanding of God\u2019s grace<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now somebody somewhere is possibly going to try to explain to me how healing doesn\u2019t have to be a gift of the Holy Spirit, and that not all cessationists deny the possibility of God healing today. It\u2019s just possible that I might understand that distinction this time round, but I must confess, I struggled to grasp it last time<\/a>. Does anyone want to try to enlighten me further?<\/p>\n

To be fair to Lex, I also ought to point out that his blog is not entirely about the cessationist issue. I do encourage you to join him as he slowly works his way through Church history in bite-sized pithy chunks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"