Capitula on grace and free will

conciliar · decree · 3 July 529 · Latin

Twenty-five capitula that closed the semi-Pelagian question for the West: even the beginning of faith is a gift, and the will is freed by grace rather than co-operating with it from its own resources. Caesarius of Arles drafted them from Augustine; Boniface II confirmed them, and they were forgotten for a thousand years and then quoted by everyone.

the council also stops short of double predestination and anathematizes it in as many words

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