equal importance in Church history in which the opponents have expressed the principles at issue so clearly and abstractly,” Harnack says. “The Arian dispute before the Nicene Council can alone be compared with it.…”2 For Pelagius, nature does not require grace in order to fulfill its obligations. Free will, properly exercised, produces virtue, which is the supreme good and is justly followed by reward. By his own effort man can achieve whatever is required of him in morality and religion. Events