help,” they also maintained “dogged belief in free will and responsibility.” He continues, “These two sets of ideas were not necessarily irreconcilable, but a conflict was unavoidable unless their relations were set down very subtly.”39 A conflict indeed was touched off when a well-educated Briton, Pelagius, appeared in Rome at the end of the fourth century. He brought with him a message that emphasized humanity’s innate goodness, free will, and perfectability. In addition, he challenged the growing