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Pelagianism | Pelagian

Here are some quick places to familiarize yourself with this outlook and its importance in the thought of the West:

• short article from the Columbia Encyclopedia (2001)
• short article at encyclopedia.com (at a site devoted to Reformed theology [derived from the 16th-century French/Genevan theologian John Calvin])
• short article from the encyclopedia at allRefer.com
• article by Timothy Oliver at The Watchman Expositor (a modern evangelical perspective)
• "Pelagius and Pelagianism" -- article in the Catholic Encyclopedia on 
• "Pelagianism:  The Religion of Natural Man" -- an essay by Michael S. Horton (at ModernReformation.org, which describes itself as "a publication of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals")
• "Pelagius and Pelagianism" -- an article at the Catholic Community Forum

If you want to explore further the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius -- crucial to the defining of orthodoxy thenceforth within Christianity -- a good place to go is the page on Pelagius and Pelagianism at EarlyChurch.org (a UK site).

R. Scott Clark, "Pelagianism" -- "notes . . . originally written for a course in theological anthropology given at Wheaton College, Spring Semester, 1997."  Clark is Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in California.

With special reference to the history of the early English church, see "Pelagianism" at the an interesting site devoted to the history and culture of Anglo-Saxon England.