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Pelagius

noun
1.
A British or Irish monk who denied the doctrines of original sin and predestination and defended human goodness and free will; his views were declared heretical by the Council of Ephesus in 431 (circa 360-418).





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"Pelagius" Quotes from Famous Books



... Canterbury in the thirteenth century, who wrote a book, "De Causa Dei," in controversy with Pelagius; and also numerous other treatises, among them ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer


Words linked to "Pelagius" :   monastic, monk


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