Augustine and Pelagius

Introduction

Pelagius was of a different doctrine of grace as the great Doctor of the Church, Augustine. Pelagius taught that moral freedom for evil as for good, and, therefore, considered that people are free and able to do what is good by itself. The divine grace for him was essentially in the moral teaching that God gives through the law, as well as in the example of Jesus Christ that every Christian ought to imitate and can. The fall of Adam has certainly harmed the human race, but only insofar as Adam has been a terrible example. His death is ...