Pelagianism is a Christian theological position that holds that the fall did not taint human nature and that humans by divine grace have free will to achieve human perfection.

2020年2月17日 · Pelagianism is a set of beliefs associated with the British monk Pelagius (circa AD 354–420), who taught in Rome in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. Pelagius denied the doctrines of original sin, total depravity, and predestination, believing that the human tendency to sin is a free choice.

Pelagianism, a 5th-century Christian heresy taught by Pelagius and his followers that stressed the essential goodness of human nature and the freedom of the human will. It held that sin is a voluntary act against God’s law and that human beings are free to choose between good and evil.

2022年1月4日 · Pelagianism is the unbiblical teaching that Adam’s sin did not affect future generations of humanity. According to Pelagianism, Adam’s sin was solely his own, and Adam’s descendants did not inherit a sinful nature passed down to them.

2022年9月14日 · Throughout church history, again and again, unvarnished Pelagianism has been repudiated by Christian orthodoxy. Even the Council of Trent, which teaches a form of semi-Pelagianism, in its first three canons — especially in the sixth chapter on justification — repeats the church’s ancient condemnation of the teaching of Pelagius that men ...

2021年7月8日 · Pelagianism is a heretical teaching that centers on its denial of the doctrine of original sin. Original sin is the far-reaching consequence of Adam’s sin upon the human race—inherited sinfulness and God’s resulting judgment.

Pelagius and Pelagianism. —Pelagianism received its name from Pelagius and designates a heresy of the fifth century, which denied original sin as well as Christian grace. I. LIFE AND WRITINGS OF PELAGIUS.—Apart from the chief episodes of the Pelagian controversy, little or nothing is known about the personal career of Pelagius.