A Work on the Proceedings of Pelagius
NPNF1-05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
Contents (69 chapters)
- 1. Extract from Augustin’s Retractations.
- 2. Preface to the Book on the Proceedings of Pelagius.
- 3. Argument.
- 4. Introduction.
- 5. The First Item in the Accusation, and Pelagius’ Answer.
- 6. Discussion of Pelagius’ First Answer.
- 7. The Same Continued.
- 8. The Second Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer.
- 9. Pelagius’ Answer Examined.
- 10. The Same Continued.
- 11. The Same Continued.
- 12. The Third Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer.
- 13. Pelagius’ Answer Examined. On Origen’s Error Concerning the Non-Eternity of the Punishment of the Devil and the Damned.
- 14. The Same Continued.
- 15. The Fourth Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer.
- 16. The Fifth Item of the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer.
- 17. Examination of This Point. The Phrase ‘Old Testament’ Used in Two Senses. The Heir of the Old Testament. In the Old Testament There Were Heirs of the New Testament.
- 18. The Same Continued.
- 19. The Sixth Item of the Accusation, and Pelagius’ Reply.
- 20. Examination of the Sixth Charge and Answers.
- 21. The Same Continued.
- 22. The Same Continued.
- 23. The Same Continued. Pelagius Acknowledges the Doctrine of Grace in Deceptive Terms.
- 24. The Same Continued.
- 25. The Same Continued. The Synod Supposed that the Grace Acknowledged by Pelagius Was that Which Was So Thoroughly Known to the Church.
- 26. The Seventh Item of the Accusation: the Breviates of Cœlestius Objected to Pelagius.
- 27. Pelagius’ Answer to the Charges Brought Together Under the Seventh Item.
- 28. The Pelagians Falsely Pretended that the Eastern Churches Were on Their Side.
- 29. The Accusations in the Seventh Item, Which Pelagius Confessed.
- 30. The Eighth Item in the Accusation.
- 31. Pelagius’ Reply to the Eighth Item of Accusation.
- 32. The Ninth Item of the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Reply.
- 33. The Tenth Item in the Accusation. The More Prominent Points of Cœlestius’ Work Continued.
- 34. Remarks on the Tenth Item.
- 35. The Eleventh Item of the Accusation.
- 36. Discussion of the Eleventh Item Continued.
- 37. The Same Continued. On the Works of Unbelievers; Faith is the Initial Principle from Which Good Works Have Their Beginning; Faith is the Gift of God’s Grace.
- 38. The Same Continued.
- 39. The Same Continued. The Monk Pelagius. Grace is Conferred on the Unworthy.
- 40. The Same Continued. John, Bishop of Jerusalem, and His Examination.
- 41. The Same Continued.
- 42. The Same Continued. Heros and Lazarus; Orosius.
- 43. The Same Continued.
- 44. Augustin Indulgently Shows that the Judges Acted Incautiously in Their Official Conduct of the Case of Pelagius.
- 45. The Twelfth Item in the Accusation. Other Heads of Cœlestius’ Doctrine Abjured by Pelagius.
- 46. The Answer of the Monk Pelagius and His Profession of Faith.
- 47. The Acquittal of Pelagius.
- 48. Pelagius’ Acquittal Becomes Suspected.
- 49. How Pelagius Became Known to Augustin; Cœlestius Condemned at Carthage.
- 50. Pelagius’ Book, Which Was Sent by Timasius and Jacobus to Augustin, Was Answered by the Latter in His Work 'On Nature and Grace.'
- 51. A Letter Written by Timasius and Jacobus to Augustin on Receiving His Treatise 'On Nature and Grace.'
- 52. Pelagius’ Behaviour Contrasted with that of the Writers of the Letter.
- 53. Pelagius Has No Good Reason to Be Annoyed If His Name Be at Last Used in the Controversy, and He Be Expressly Refuted.
- 54. The Nature of Augustin’s Letter to Pelagius.
- 55. The Text of the Letter.
- 56. Pelagius’ Use of Recommendations.
- 57. On the Letter of Pelagius, in Which He Boasts that His Errors Had Been Approved by Fourteen Bishops.
- 58. Pelagius’ Letter Discussed.
- 59. Is Pelagius Sincere?
- 60. Fraudulent Practices Pursued by Pelagius in His Report of the Proceedings in Palestine, in the Paper Wherein He Defended Himself to Augustin.
- 61. The Same Continued.
- 62. Although Pelagius Was Acquitted, His Heresy Was Condemned.
- 63. The Synod’s Condemnation of His Doctrines.
- 64. History of the Pelagian Heresy. The Pelagian Heresy Was Raised by Sundry Persons Who Affected the Monastic State.
- 65. The History Continued. Cœlestius Condemned at Carthage by Episcopal Judgment. Pelagius Acquitted by Bishops in Palestine, in Consequence of His Deceptive Answers; But Yet His Heresy Was Condemned by Them.
- 66. The Same Continued. The Dogmas of Cœlestius Laid to the Charge of Pelagius, as His Master, and Condemned.
- 67. How the Bishops Cleared Pelagius of Those Charges.
- 68. Recapitulation of What Pelagius Condemned.
- 69. The Harsh Measures of the Pelagians Against the Holy Monks and Nuns Who Belonged to Jerome’s Charge.
Source: CCEL