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“It’s the Pelagian vision,” he wrote.

“It’s like Anthony Burgess’s idea that Pelagian liberalism alternates historically with Augustinian conservatism,” he said.

He was a re lapsed saint, who had fallen into the Pelagian heresy of Celestius, and he believed that the soul was capable of its own salvation.

He had one already about the shape of his tonsure, and the usual one about the date of Barter, as well as his own Pelagian business—but the latest was beginning to make him feel as if the presence of children was unnecessary.

The genius and the virtue that might have defended the Empire were engaged in fierce disputes about the Pelagian controversy, at the very time when Alaric was encircling Rome with his armies,312 and there was no subtlety of theological metaphysics which did not kindle a deeper interest in the Christian leaders than the throes of their expiring country.