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Pelagius

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Pelagius ( c. 360– c. 420) Monk and theologian, probably born in Britain, who preached the heresy of Pelagianism. In c. 380, he went to Rome and became the spiritual guide of many clerics and lay persons. After 410, he preached in Africa, where Saint Augustine denounced his ideas, and later in Palestine. He maintained that man is master of his own salvation and rejected the idea of original sin. He countered criticisms from Augustine and Saint Jerome in his book De Libero Arbitrio in 416. He was excommunicated by Pope Innocent I in 417.

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