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Le passage de Célestius à Carthage : un moment clé du pélagianisme
During Spring and Summer 411, Pelagius and his closest pupil, the then-unknown Caelestius, arrived at Carthage. The former quickly left Africa for the East, while the latter took advantage of his stay in the African capital to spread their doctrine ...
Zohra Picard-Mawji
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St. Augustine’s treatise ‘’On the spirit and the letter’’: its historical background and principal set of ideas [PDF]
This article is devoted to the treatise On the Spirit and the Letter, one of the earliest anti-Pelagian works of St. Augustine. It describes the historical and literary context of the initial stage of the Pelagian controversy, which had a decisive infl ...
Dmitrii Smirnov
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In the Service of the Empire: Pope Zosimus and the Roman Synod of 417
Introduction. The brief pontificate of Pope Zosimus (417–418) was marked by the Roman Synod in September 417, the decisions of which were of great importance both for the subsequent church-administrative development of Southern Gaul and for the ...
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“Liber de fide” by Rufinus the Syrian and its contribution to the Pelagian controversies of the early 5th century. Part 2 [PDF]
: Rufinus the Syrian's Book on Faith is a source whose significance in the history of the Pelagian controversies is assessed in various ways. The aim of this publication is to establish the place of this work in the theological and literary context of ...
Vasily Kuleshin
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This article studies the Commonitorium super nomine Caelestii, an information note compiled by Marius Mercator, describing the participation of the Roman See in the condemnation of the heretics Pelagius and Caelestius, mainly during the pontificate of ...
Mikhail Viacheslavovich Gratsianskiy
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Augustine's First Contact with Pelagius and the Dating of the Condemnation of Caelestius at Carthage
Vigiliae Christianae, 1954versy with Pelagianism. Leclercq e.g. in his French translation of Hefele's Conziliengeschichte criticizes Hefele and maintains without any real evidence that the first anti-Pelagian council, i.e. the excommunication of Caelestius at Carthage, happened in 412 instead of 411 as Hefele and others supposed.1 Bardenhewer,2 Stein,3 Pauly-Wissowa's Real ...
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The Confession of Faith Ascribed to Caelestius
Sacris Erudiri, 2011In this contribution the validity of Jean Garnier’s reconstruction of Caelestius’ confession of faith (or Libellus fidei) is examined. In an overview of its influence, it is pointed out that earlier criticisms of this reconstruction have fallen into oblivion, with significant risks and consequences for current research on the Pelagian controversy. Next,
Malavasi, Giulio, Dupont, Anthony
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