Pelagianism
Can a person climb toward salvation by willpower alone, before grace?
Pelagianism, named for Pelagius, taught that humans can take the first steps toward salvation by free will without prior grace, denying original sin. Augustine opposed it, and it was condemned at Carthage in 418 and Ephesus in 431. The condemnation is shared across the traditions, which together affirm that God's grace precedes and enables every movement of the soul toward salvation.
How it traveled
- Against the PelagiansBethlehem · 420explains
- The Letters of St. JeromeBethlehem · 420applies
- Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious MenBethlehem · 420explains
- A Treatise Against Two Letters of the PelagiansHippo Regius · 430applies
- A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original SinHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Work on the Proceedings of PelagiusHippo Regius · 430explains
- On Marriage and ConcupiscenceHippo Regius · 430challenges
- A Treatise on Nature and GraceHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Predestination of the SaintsHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of InfantsHippo Regius · 430explains
- Letters of St. AugustinHippo Regius · 430applies
- A Treatise on Grace and Free WillHippo Regius · 430challenges
- A Treatise on the Soul and its OriginHippo Regius · 430applies
- A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in RighteousnessHippo Regius · 430challenges
- A Treatise on the Spirit and the LetterHippo Regius · 430challenges
- Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New TestamentHippo Regius · 430challenges
- The Third Ecumenical Council: The Council of EphesusEphesus · 431applies
- The Seven Books of John Cassian on the Incarnation of the Lord, Against NestoriusMarseille · 435challenges
- The Letters and Sermons of Leo the GreatRome · 461applies
- Discussion: First PartWittenberg · 1546applies
- Commentary on GalatiansWittenberg · 1546challenges
- Discussion: Third PartWittenberg · 1546challenges
- Discussion: Second PartWittenberg · 1546challenges
- Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the GospelGeneva · 1564challenges
- XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvationNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758challenges
- The great christian doctrine of original sin defendedNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758challenges
Key passages(20)
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise on Grace and Free Will · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise on Nature and Grace · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin · Augustine of Hippo
A Work on the Proceedings of Pelagius · Augustine of Hippo
Letters of St. Augustin · Augustine of Hippo
The Letters of St. Jerome · Jerome
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
Letters of St. Augustin · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo