bondage to sin. Only Augustine (354–430) was prepared to accept the logical consequences of Paul’s teaching on this matter, and this led to his famous quarrel with Pelagius. Pelagius was only teaching what many of his contemporaries believed: that people were free to choose or to reject Christ. It was not easy for Augustine to overcome this belief. The Eastern (Greek) church has never accepted this aspect of Augustinian theology, and even the Western (Latin) church has often had to contend with serious