{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050445.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050445.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050445.htm","text":"Chapter 60 [XXXV.]\u2014The Synod\u2019s Condemnation of His Doctrines.\nThis is the concluding clause of their judgment. The synod said: \u201cNow forasmuch as we have received satisfaction in these inquiries from the monk Pelagius, who has been present, who yields assent to godly doctrines, and rejects and anathematizes those which are contrary to the Church, we confess him still to belong to the communion of the catholic Church.\u201d Now, there are two facts concerning the monk Pelagius here contained with entire perspicuity in this brief statement of the holy bishops who judged him: one, that \u201che yields assent to godly doctrines;\u201d the other, that \u201che rejects and anathematizes those which are contrary to the Church.\u201d On account of these two concessions, Pelagius was pronounced to be \u201cin the communion of the catholic Church.\u201d Let us, in pursuit of our inquiry, briefly recapitulate the entire facts, in order to discover what were the words he used which made those two points so clear, as far as men were able at the moment to form a judgment as to what were manifest points. For among the allegations which were made against him, he is said to have rejected and anathematized, as \u201ccontrary,\u201d all the statements which in his answer he denied were his. Let us, then, summarize the whole case as far as we can.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Work on the Pro...","type":"page"}