A version of this belief gained popularity in Gaul until the Second Council of Orange declared against it, rejecting the beliefs of John Cassian.
A version of this belief gained popularity in Gaul until the Second Council of Orange declared against it, rejecting the beliefs of John Cassian. One of its leaders, Julian of Eclanum, took refuge with Theodore of Mopsuestia after he who refused to sign a document which excommunicated some of its formulators. He later met another of its leaders, a Roman lawyer named Celestius, whose six theses were found heretical by Paulinus of Milan. Its main leader was likely born in Britain, as evidenced by his cognomen, and wrote a commentary on the epistles of St. Paul; he argued that men possessed sufficient will to distinguish between good and evil without divine assistance. FTP, name this heresy which held that Adam's actions had no lasting impact on the human race, a rebuttal of the idea of Original Sin.
A version of this belief gained popularity in Gaul until the Second Council of Orange declared against it, rejecting the beliefs of John Cassian.
{Pelagian}ism