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The Pelagian Controversy

In Our Time

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Augustine's Argument on Original Sin

John Melbank: Augustine doesn't make the division that some Greeks made between culture and nature. In many ways, free will or true desire is the gift of grace, he says. Pelagius thinks in terms of Willard's self-control; we can't start all over again with a blank slate," writes Melbank.

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