(52) James Wetzel, 'Predestination,
Pelagianism, and Foreknowledge', in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed.
The idea of chastity as an alternative equivalent to or even superior to the marriage state smacked of
Pelagianism and of the arrogance of supererogation.
I hear, in his publick notes, he hes deboirded to the Popish justification, and, in his discourses, to the grossest
Pelagianism in originall sin, let be in other points of Arminianisme.
Diana Stanciu observes that in his Augustinus (1640) Cornelius Jansen saw Aristotelian notions of human nature and virtue as underpinning the resurgent Jesuit
Pelagianism that he aimed to refute.
I suspect this is due in part to her conflating the Council of Trent's declarations on penitential satisfaction with the
Pelagianism of the via moderna.
Forde was on guard for "creeping
Pelagianism" in proclamation and, therefore, did not acknowledge the third use of the law.
He appears to have played a leading role in combating
Pelagianism, a teaching that cast doubt on the power of original sin and emphasised the power of human free will.
Just as Augustine's early confrontations with Manichaeism (a dualist religion that believed the cosmos to emanate from two coequal principles of goodness and evil) left their mark on the Confessions, so did his post-conversion wranglings with
Pelagianism (which denied original sin and man's need of divine grace for salvation) and Donatism (which tied the efficacy of the sacraments to the moral purity of their ministers) inform his mature writings.
Pelagianism (fourth century) both contradicted the doctrine of original sin and asserted that the beginning of salvation proceeded not from grace but from human free will.
(4.) A mere glance at the controversy over
Pelagianism makes this point clear.
(19) Even after returning to Christianity, however, Augustine had to battle
Pelagianism, a dispute that frustrated him to such extremes that he retreated into the flawed doctrine of determinism.
McCarthy also identifies another major issue for Kierkegaard-Heidegger interpretation: those reading Kierkegaard and Heidegger from the perspective of Christian theology will balk at Heidegger's secular phenomenology, which is a contemporary form of
Pelagianism in contrast to Kierkegaard's more Augustinian emphasis on the need for divine grace (114).
(30) Given his connections, Williams represented the face not of the traditional "
pelagianism" attacked by Gifford and Dent but clearly of a parish anti-Calvinism that was closely connected to university disputes.
Finally, well-known controversies,
Pelagianism and Donatism, for example, also appear in these pages, their debates about boundaries closely keyed to Augustine's perceptions of pride and the soul's debility.
While an analogy to
Pelagianism (or perhaps semi-Pelagianism) is no doubt too strong, there is a sense that the strongest accent of catholicity is not on Christ's presence in the church, but on the church's achievement in fidelity to canonical expressions of doctrine, ministry, liturgy and morals contrasted with those of the heretical and schismatic Christian communities.
