"Pelagius who?" you might ask. Answer: the fifth-century Christian writer, preacher and spiritual director who was declared a heretic by the Council of Carthage for denying the doctrine of Original Sin.
Pelagius was known as an ascetic and a holy man, but his alleged views that humans were not stained by original sin and did not need grace to work toward salvation made him anathema to the likes of Saint Augustine (and the Calvinists, later on). Other early church fathers and polemicists were not fans either.
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