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Volume 2 of Shedd’s History of Christian Doctrine explores the history of Christian anthropology, including theories of the soul and conceptions of pre-existence. Shedd argues that the influence of Greek anthropology can be seen in the development of theology in the Early Church, and in the doctrine of original sin articulated by Tertullian, Cyprian, Hilary, Ambrose, and Augustine. The history of...

CHAPTER IV PELAGIANISM AND SEMI-PELAGIANISM § 1. Pelagianism PELAGIUS, a British monk, directly by his own teachings, and indirectly by the controversy to which he gave occasion, and the adherents who developed his views, constructed an anthropology totally antagonistic to the Augustinian. The fundamental points in his theory are the following. The soul of man by creation is neither holy nor sinful.1 His body by creation is mortal. The fall of Adam introduced no change of any kind into either the
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