a local schism, hardly known in other branches of the Church. “The Pelagian controversy was that as to which Augustine exercised the most powerful influence on his own age, and which has chiefly made his authority important through succeeding times.”1 The great controversies which had hitherto agitated the Church arose in the East, and all related to the nature of the Godhead and the relations of the Persons of the Holy Trinity; one was now to arise in the West on the nature of man and his relations