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semi-Pelagianism
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Semi-Pelagianism: see Pelagianism Pelagianism , Christian heretical sect that rose in the 5th cent. challenging St. Augustine's conceptions of grace and predestination. The doctrine was advanced by the celebrated monk and theologian Pelagius (c.355–c.425). He was probably born in Britain.
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semi-Pelagianism

Religious movement that flourished AD 429–529 in southern France, considered a heresy by the Roman Catholic church. Unlike their near-contemporaries, the Pelagians (see Pelagianism), the semi-Pelagians believed in the universality of original sin as a corruptive force in mankind and held that it could not be overcome without the grace of God. They endorsed baptism, but contrary to Augustine, they taught that the innate corruption of mankind was not so great that it was beyond the will of mankind to subdue through asceticism. Its principal exponents were Sts. John Cassian (360–435), Vincent of Lérins (died c. 450), and Faustus of Riez (c. 400–c. 490).
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The Augustinian distinction between science and wisdom would have offered a deeper epistemology than that of Aquinas, and greater emphasis on the Cross as the necessary point of contradiction between church and world would have enabled the council to avoid semi-Pelagian language and notions.
The church in crisis: Pope Benedict's theological vision by Komonchak, Joseph A. / Commonweal
Duffy concluded as follows: "In almost all cases the distinctive theology of the prayers has been evacuated, and in many cases it has actually been subverted and replaced by a slacker, often semi-pelagian theology, far removed from the spirit of the Roman rite, but redolent of some of the more shallowly optimistic theological currents of the late 1960s.
Liturgy in renewal? by Leonie Caldicott / Catholic Insight
Theologian Karl Rahner once noted that many Catholics are in practice semi-Pelagians.
Protecting the guilty: did John Salvi deserve his fate? by Pope, Stephen J. / Commonweal
 
 
 
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