The Pelagian controversy

Doctrinal · 418 · regional

How much a man can do unaided. Pelagius held that God commands nothing impossible; Augustine answered that the will itself must be healed before it can choose well, and the African councils legislated it.

How it ended. Condemned at Carthage in 418, and the semi-Pelagian question after it closed the same way at Orange in 529.

How it ran

418 — Council of Carthage (418) (where it was settled). Anathematizes the Pelagian account of grace and of infant baptism.

What was at issue

Grace is necessary for every good act what was at issue
Original sin what was at issue
The will suffices without grace what was at issue

Who stood in it

Caelestius accused in it
Pelagius accused in it
Augustine of Hippo pressed the charge

After The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) · the African Code, canon 113 (Carthage 418).