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	Pelagius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerome wrote against Pelagius in his letter to Ctesiphon and "Dialogus contra Pelagianos." With Jerome at the time was Orosius, a visiting pupil of Augustine, with a similar apprehension of the dangers of Pelagianism.
		Pelagius and his followers saw remnants of this fatalistic belief in Augustine's teachings on the Fall of Adam, which was not a settled doctrine at the time the Augustinian/Pelagian dispute began.
		Pelagius is frequently referred to in Jack Whyte's series of books known as A Dream of Eagles, where a major character's belief in Pelagius' ideas of Free Will and the laxity of the Roman Catholic Church eventually cause him to come into conflict with Church representatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pelagius (1863 words)

	Pope Pelagius I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pelagius accompanied Pope Agapitus I to Constantinople, and was appointed by him nuncio of the Roman Church to that city.
		Pelagius poured out his own fortune for the benefit of the famine-stricken people, and tried to induce the king to grant a truce.
		Totila sent Pelagius to Constantinople in order to arrange a peace with Justinian I, but the Emperor sent him back to say that his general Belisarius was in command in Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Pelagius_I (294 words)

	Pelagianism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Pelagius thought that St. Augustine was excessively pessimistic in his view that humanity is sinful by nature and must rely totally upon grace for salvation.
		Pelagius rejected the doctrine of original sin; he taught that children are born innocent of the sin of Adam.
		Pelagius challenged the very function of the church, claiming that the law as well as the gospel can lead one to heaven and that pagans had been able to enter heaven by virtue of their moral actions before the coming of Christ.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/Pelagian.html (462 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Pelagius I
		Pelagius did not submit at once, but wrote against the opponents of the Three Chapters and blamed the subservience of his superior.
		But Pelagius was not so successful in extinguishing in Italy the schism which the condemnation of the Three Chapters had excited in the West, as he was in winning the confidence of the Romans.
		Pelagius did all in his power to convince the bishops of Northern Italy, where the schism had taken the deepest hold, that he accepted the first four General Councils as unreservedly as they did, and that the decrees of the recent Council of Constantinople were in no way in real opposition to those of Chalcedon.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11602a.htm (1352 words)

	Pelagius
		Pelagius, although little is known of him only he is thought to have come from Britain and personally played an important role in shaping the early character of the Celtic Christianity.
		Pelagius did not believe that man’s nature was tainted by the sin of Adam; and therefore, by his own nature and efforts could only inherit hell or damnation.
		The view of Pelagius and his followers firmly held to the Storic doctrine of the free will of man and the innate goodness of nature, which they claimed, was not corrupted but only modified by sin.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/p/Pelagius.html (875 words)

	GPC - Pelagius
		Pelagius was born around 350 in Britannia and died sometime after 418 in Palestine after a second trial for heresy.
		Yet, during Pelagius' first trial for heresy in 415 Augustine said that he had been wary of Pelagius as early as 412 and that letter he wrote was full of hidden warnings.
		Augustine referred to Pelagius as a "certain psuedo-monk who under the pretence of defending freedom of will, disputes the grace of God and endeavors to overthrow the foundation of the Christian faith." (Christian faith or Christian Church?) Jerome called Pelagius a "pagan Originist" (as bad as calling someone a communist in the '50s).
	www.groupprocessconsulting.com /flow/pelagius.shtml (966 words)

	Pelagianism
		Pelagianism is the name given to the teachings of Pelagius, a British Christian active in Rome in the late 4th and early 5th centuries.
		Pelagius was in Jerusalem in 415, but there is no reason to suppose that he spent the latter part of his life there.
		Pelagius was an eminently moral person, who became a fashionable teacher at Rome late in the fourth century.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/pelagian.htm (1187 words)

	Pelagius
		The views of Pelagius did not originate in a conscious reaction against the influence of the Augustinian theology, although each of these systems was developed into its ultimate form by the opposition of the other.
		Pelagius himself did not carry his rationalism through to its issues; but the logical consequence of his system was, as Augustine perceived, the denial of the atonement and other central truths of revealed religion.
		Pelagius was familiar with the Greek language and theology, and when he came to Rome he was much in the company of Rufinus and his circle who were endeavoring to propagate Greek theology in the Latin Church.
	www.nndb.com /people/677/000097386 (2223 words)

	Pelagius: To Demetrias
		They decided to direct all their energies to attacking Pelagius and the British monk soon found himself "out-manoeuvred and out-gunned."[8] Under the influence of Augustine, the bishops of Africa appealed to Pope Innocent I, and after some time, he declared that Pelagius and Celestius were to be excommunicated unless they renounced their "heretical" beliefs.
		Pelagius tells Demetrias that her vow of virginity does not exempt her from the fullness of demands of the Christian life; he warns her not to be deceived by those who adopt chastity "not along with righteousness but in its place" (10:2).
		Pelagius quotes from Matthew 15:19, "Out of the heart of man come evil thoughts," to show that the origin of sin is the evil image or thought in the human heart.
	www.brojed.org /pelagius.html (5312 words)

	Heretical Essays
		One consequence of Pelagius' theology of Salvation is that the Church is unnecessary for Salvation.
		Pelagius felt that laypersons had a duty to teach each other about the Faith, while most of the clergy thought that it was the responsibility of the Church hierarchy to do so (O'Grady, 1985, 114).
		Although Pelagius was not a Donatist, Augustine and others felt that his ideas of salvation might lead the church in a Donatist direction because clergy would be judged by their ability to be free of sin.
	www.hereticalideas.com /2003_02_02_ideasarchive.htm (7326 words)

	PELAGIUS II
		When Pelagius was elected pope, the Lombards were blockading Rome, making it impossible to send for the imperial confirmation of the election.
		Pelagius took advantage of this breathing spell to try to bring the Three Chapters schism to an end.
		Pelagius II died, the victim of a plague, February 7, 590.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp63.htm (484 words)

	Pelagius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pelagius reasoned that if a man were not himself responsible for his good or evil deeds, there was nothing to restrain him from indulgence in sin.
		Pelagius held that the human will is free to do good or evil, and that divine grace only facilitates what the will can do itself.
		Pelagius: To Demetrias by Deacon Geoffrey Ó Riada
	www.wku.edu /~rob.harbison/projects/pelagius.html (230 words)

	Pelagius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At first it might seem that Pelagius is not as important to the prophecies of the Dark Ages as Constantine or Augustine or Gregory.
		Pelagius was Augustine’s "chief opponent." While Augustine taught that mankind is basically evil and his works do not count toward salvation, Pelagius was horrified to see the practical effects of this: wickedness in Rome.
		Pelagius was condemned him as a heretic and his writings were banned.
	www.whyprophets.com /prophets/pelagius.htm (1876 words)

	Pelagius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pelagius was a British monk who appears on the historical radar ca.380 in Rome (3).
		Pelagius himself apparently attracted a following by teaching that humans are not Adam's children, but, like Adam, have the ability to sin or not to sin (6).
		Pelagius was excommunicated by Pope Innocent I (410-7) and Pelagianism condemned by four regional councils, one ecumenical council and at least one Roman Catholic council not to mention numerous Protestant synods, assemblies and confessions.
	public.csusm.edu /public/guests/rsclark/Pelagius.htm (2915 words)

	Pelagius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pelagius was a highly educated Celtic Christian monk who denied original sin as well as Christian grace.
		Drawing from pagan and Stoic philosophy, Pelagius felt a profound respect for the moral strength of man's will, which, when steeled by asceticism, was sufficient in itself to desire and to attain the loftiest ideal of virtue.
		Pelagius and his followers firmly believed in the free will of humanity and the innate goodness of nature.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Pelagius.html (170 words)

	The Madness of Pelagius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pelagius' father, King Magnus, allied himself with his brother Cephorus against the usurper Emperor, and brought the wrath of Uriel III and Queen Potema down on Wayrest.
		When Pelagius was eight, Cephorus slew Uriel III at the Battle of Ichidag and proclaimed himself Emperor Cephorus I. For the next ten years of his reign, Cephorus battled Potema.
		Pelagius' first battle was the Siege of Solitude, which ended with Potema's death and the final end of the war.
	til.gamingsource.net /mwbooks/madness_pelagius.shtml (1178 words)

	Pelagian Origins
		Hence, Jerome sees in Pelagius a disciple of Jovinian, in view of the fact that he is critical of his treatment of marriage as found in Against Jovinian (though Pelagius was, himself, a critic of Jovinian on this subject).
		Pelagius was not content to refute Jerome's improbable charges, and charged Jerome with false teaching concerning marriage.
		Pelagius’ ‘center’ was the aim to produce not only the perfect individual but the perfect religious group (Brown, Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine, 194).
	www.fpcjackson.org /resources/church_history/pelagianorig.htm (2058 words)

	Morphemics: Pelagius
		Pelagius denied that this was exactly what he meant.
		Pelagius' accusers were unable to show up due to illness.
		Pelagius, up to this point, had been able to lie his way out of being convicted.
	kevin.seattleblogs.org /archives/000465.html (898 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pelagius and Pelagianism
		For the rest, Pelagius would have announced nothing new by this doctrine, since the Antinomists of the early Apostolic Church were already familiar with "justification by faith alone" (cf.
		Meanwhile Pelagius, who was sojourning in Palestine, did not remain idle; to a noble Roman virgin, named Demetrias, who at Alaric's coming had fled to Carthage, he wrote a letter which is still extant (in P. L., XXX, 15-45) and in which he again inculcated his Stoic principles of the unlimited energy of nature.
		Pelagius punctually obeyed the summons, but the principal complainants, Heros and Lazarus, failed to make their appearance, one of them being prevented by ill-health.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11604a.htm (4516 words)

	Storyteller's World: Saint Pelagius (c.350-418)
		Pelagius was a British theologian, teacher, writer and soul-friend who settled in Rome.
		In 417 the Bishop of Rome called a synod to consider the conflict, and declared Pelagius' teaching entirely true, and urged the African bishops to love peace, prize love and seek after harmony.
		It is said that Pelagius held the view that man could obtain a place in heaven independently of the grace of God.
	www.godspell.org.uk /2004/08/saint-pelagius-c350-418.html (463 words)

	Pelagius As Promised
		Pelagius was first brought up before a council in Palestine by bishops from Gaul, and later denounced by Romans.
		In so doing, Pelagius also undermined the doctrinal basis for a host of lucrative practices of the Mediterranian tradition -- the most egregious being the granting of "special dispensations" in exchange for cash contributions (which ultimately led to Martin Luther's outburst and hence the reformation).
		One doesn't have to romanticize the Celtic tradition to recognize brazen corruption and the suppression of unpopular speech in the Roman church's suppression and slander of Pelagius.
	clublet.com /why?page=PelagiusAsPromised (2368 words)

	On the Proceedings of Pelagius
		Since also they were absent who presented the indictment against Pelagius to the holy bishop Eulogius, there was no one to urge him that he ought to distinguish, by some exception, between those sinners who are to be saved by fire, and those who are to be punished with everlasting perdition.
		Pelagius was charged with having said: "That the Church here is without spot or wrinkle." It was on this point that the Donatists also were constantly at conflict with us in our conference.
		But although by their sentence Pelagius is held by those who are on terms of fullest and closest intimacy with him to have been deservedly acquitted, with the approval and commendation of his judges, he certainly does not appear to me to have been cleared of the charges brought against him.
	whitefield.freeservers.com /augustine05.html (7642 words)

	Various Traditions Morgan-Pelagius
		The notion that Pelagius was Irish is a modern one based on the fact that in those times the term “Scot ” could also refer to someone from Ireland.
		Pelagius and his friend Celestius apparently believed that the Mosaic Law was equally as good as the Christian one for the purposes of salvation.
		Pelagius saw the Law of Moses as being equal to Chritianity and he may have been reflecting the general attitude of his countrymen in parts of Britain at that time.
	www.britam.org /traditions18.html (1515 words)

	PELAGIANISM, Pelagius
		Pelagius believed that the consequences of Adam's (and Eve's) sin were restricted to themselves only and, as a result, he denied the belief that original sin was passed on or transferred to the children of Adam and thus to the human race.
		His teaching was that human beings are born in a state of innocence with a nature that is as pure as that which Adam was given at his creation.
		Pelagius cleared himself of charges against himself, primarily by hiding his real beliefs, but at the Council of Carthage in 418 A.D., his teachings were branded as heresy.
	www.ondoctrine.com /10pelagi.htm (908 words)

	Pelagius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pelagius attacked this teaching on the grounds that it imperilled the entire moral law and soon gained a considerable following at Rome.
		There they encountered the hostile criticism of Augustine, who published several denunciatory letters concerning their doctrine, particularly Pelagius' insistence on man's basically good moral nature and on man's own responsibility for voluntarily choosing Christian asceticism for his spiritual advancement.
		In 417 Pope Innocent I endorsed the condemnations and excommunicated Pelagius and Celestius.
	www.unclenicks.net /Canvas/pelagius.html (3694 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V
		Augustin shows that, although Pelagius was acquitted by the synod, there still clave to him the suspicion of heresy; and that the acquittal of the accused by the synod was so contrived, that the heresy itself with which he was charged was unhesitatingly condemned.
		This avowal was accordingly acceptable to the judges, in the sense in which Pelagius solemnly declared his belief; but certainly not in the sense which Coelestius, according to the original charge against him, was said to hold.
		This, therefore, is the doctrine which the bishops of the synod declared to be received by the Church, that the state of virginity, persevered in to the last, which is not commanded, is more than the chastity of married life, which is commanded.
	www.ccel.org /fathers2/NPNF1-05/npnf1-05-20.htm (11659 words)

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