Pelagius

I must thank Professor McCall for his full and hearty (c.2000 word) response to what he (presumably ironically) calls my "essay" (a 500 word blogpost) on Wesley and Pelagius . Mark Jones has urged me to be brief, so even though I have lots of questions about what my learned interlocutor has written...

I. Introduction I have always found Lee Gatiss to be a fine historian, so I was disappointed to see his claims in the recent " Wesley and Pelagius ". He points out that Pelagius has been universally reviled and rejected in orthodox (Western) Christian theology, and then he also points out that John...

For century after century, one man has been the bogeyman of Western theology. He's the bad guy. The one nobody wants to be like. Yes, you guessed it: that old Welsh heretic, Pelagius . For centuries the malign influence of his worksy free will religion has been resisted. Bede narrates in his...