Pelagianism
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- noun
- /pəˈleɪdʒənˌɪzəm/
- Formal
- To overlook the radical nature of the church's dependence on the Spirit in the church's being and acting is to succumb to ecclesiastical Pelagianism.
Examples
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Pelagianism argues that humans can achieve righteousness through their own efforts without divine grace.
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Augustine advanced the distinction between operative and cooperative grace in the context of his theological controversy with Pelagianism.
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LOCKED is essentially arguing for Pelagianism from the 5th century AD.
Blog text (6) -
This way of thinking exhibits an implicit Pelagianism.
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Augustine was successful, and Pelagianism was declared a heresy.
Academic text (1999) -
Such doctrine, Corvinus maintained, gave grace its dues; this was no Pelagianism.
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That's simply Pelagianism.
Blog text (4) -
Pelagianism, which denied original sin and said men can use their free will to attain salvation on their own merits without God's grace.
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If nothing is said about who Jesus was except that he was a thoroughly human being, there is nothing to say about what he did, except possibly that he proved the truth of Pelagianism by successfully overcoming sin (373).
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Du Moulin held Arminius responsible for concocting the amalgam of nature and grace that revived the menace of Pelagianism.
Academic text (2018)
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Pelagianism = Pelagian (opaque) = Pelagius + an + ism
Forming a noun for a doctrine by adding '-ism' to an adjective is a regular and transparent morphological process.
Etymology
Pelagianism is named after the monk Pelagius and the ending -ism means 'belief'. He taught that people can become good by their own effort and that babies are not born with 'original sin', so Pelagianism is the name for that teaching.