Semi-Pelagianism
Can the soul take the first step toward God on its own? A later age said no
Semi-Pelagianism is the teaching that the human will can make the first move toward God, with divine grace then assisting what the person has begun. It is associated with figures such as John Cassian, though the label itself is a later, somewhat polemical coinage. The Second Council of Orange in 529 condemned this view in the West, affirming that grace must precede and enable even the beginning of faith.
How it traveled
- A Treatise on the Predestination of the SaintsHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise Against Two Letters of the PelagiansHippo Regius · 430challenges
- Discussion: Third PartWittenberg · 1546challenges
Key passages(20)
A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints · Augustine of Hippo
Discussion: Third Part · Martin Luther
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints · Augustine of Hippo
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 Gospel · John Calvin
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 Gospel · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part II. Containing Conferences XI-XVII · John Cassian
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 Gospel · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Discussion: Third Part · Martin Luther
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 Gospel · John Calvin
A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace · Augustine of Hippo
a careful and strict inquiry into the prevailing notions of the freedom of will · Jonathan Edwards
A Work on the Proceedings of Pelagius · Augustine of Hippo
Letters of St. Augustin · Augustine of Hippo
The Letters of St. Jerome · Jerome
Discussion: First Part · Martin Luther
A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo