1525–35; < Late Latin Pelagiānus; see -an
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“It’s like Anthony Burgess’s idea that Pelagian liberalism alternates historically with Augustinian conservatism,” he said.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2019
Thousands of others have arrived on nearby Pelagian islands, as well as Sicily and Sardinia.
From Newsweek • Jun. 12, 2011
Spiritually unsatisfied by the Pelagian tendencies�salvation by good works�of late medieval Catholicism, Martin Luther found fresh and momentous insight in an all but ignored phrase of Paul's: that man is justified by grace through faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today's "attempts at tragedy have abandoned this finite image for a new Pelagian tactic, for a new type of third act, the third act of the power and the exclamation point."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pelagian heresy gained another powerful champion in the person of Bishop Julian of Eclanum in Apulia.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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