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St. Jerome’s reputation rests primarily on his achievements as a translator and as a scriptural exegete. The important service that he rendered to the Church in his doctrinal works is often overlooked or minimized by those who look for originality and independence of thought. St. Jerome was not a theologian in the strict sense of the word. He was no original thinker, and he never abandoned...

were free from sin; third, that newly born infants are in the same condition as Adam was before the fall; fourth, that man can be without sin and can observe all the commandments of God if he wants to; and fifth, that infants have eternal life, even though they are not baptized.3 The most important and fundamental principle of Pelagianism, which was evidently based on the Stoic conception of human nature, consisted in the affirmation of the moral strength and self-sufficiency of man’s free will.
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