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Episode 102: An Old Man's Book (Augustine's City of God, Part 2 of 2)

Literature and History

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The Importance of Individual Volition

There's nothing fanatical or blasphemous by any standards in these quotes from Pelagius. What Pelagius offers there is a very simple and lucid explanation of moral choice. Augustine shows himself to be anything but a dully literalist reader of the Holy Rit, says historian James Wetzel.

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