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The theological doctrine put forward by Pelagius which denied original sin and affirmed the ability of humans to be righteous; condemned as heresy by the Council of Ephesus in 431.

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  • I would say that Pelagianism is a moral form of Gnosticism.
  • It may admit of discussion, whether Semi-Pelagianism is not real
  • Heresies and his Hypognosticon, as belonging to Pelagianism: (i.)
  • Augustine's doctrine stood between the extremes of Pelagianism and
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