The Oxford Handbook of the Pelagian Controversy

Anthony Dupont is a Research Professor in Christian Antiquity affiliated with the Research Unit History of Church and Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium. His scholarly pursuits focus on the theology and philosophy of Augustine of Hippo (354-430). Dupont was recently appointed to the Chair Augustine of Hippo, the mission of which is to deepen the understanding of Augustine's intellectual legacy and to foster broader dissemination of his ideas through rigorous academic inquiry.Giulio Malavasi is an independent scholar and a civil servant in the Italian government. He publishes regularly on the Pelagian controversy, focusing on the historical construction of Pelagianism as a heresy, on the theological differences within the so-called Pelagian movement, and on the history of Pelagianism in the East. He recently published La controversia pelagiana in Oriente (2022) and co-edited the volume Sancti uiri, ut audio: Theologies, Rhetorics and Receptions of the Pelagian Controversy Reappraised (2023).Brian Matz is Professor of the History of Christianity and Associate Dean of Aquinas Institute of Theology, a graduate school affiliated with Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. He is the author of several books and articles on the theological controversies of and the reception of Augustine in the Carolingian era, on Gregory of Nazianzus, and on early Christian social ethics.

• Anthony Dupont, Giulio Malavasi, Brian Matz: Introduction PART 1: History 1: Stuart Squires: Biographies of the Principal Participants in the Fifth Century 2: Ilaria Ramelli: The Pre-history of the Pelagian Controversy, Part I: Grace and Freewill, Ethical Intellectualism and the Birth of Original Sin 3: Walter Dunphy: The Pre-history of the Pelagian controversy, Part II: The Debate Begins 4: Jean-Marie Salamito: The social dimensions of a religious controversy 5: Winrich Löhr: The First Phase of the Controversy: from the Outbreak up to Zosimus' Epistula tractoria 6: Mar Marcos: The Second Phase of the Controversy: from Julian of Aeclanum's Refusal to Sign Zosimus' Epistula tractoria to the Condemnation of the Pelagians at the Council of Ephesus 7: Raúl Villegas Marín: The Late Antique Post-Pelagian Controversies (426-470) PART 2: Theology 8: Matthieu Pignot: Original Sin and Infant Baptism 9: Timo Nisula: Carnal Concupiscence 10: Marianne Djuth: Grace and Free Will 11: Susanna Elm: Perseverance and Predestination 12: Han-Luen Kantzer Komline: Christology PART 3: Exegesis 13: Thomas Scheck: Pelagius's Interpretation of Romans 5, 7, and 9 14: Jonathan P. Yates: The Gospels and the Catholic Epistles 15: Dorothea Weber: Reception of the Old Testament 16: Volker Henning Drecoll: Anti-Pelagian Theology in Augustine's non anti-Pelagian Works 17: Giuseppe Caruso: Exegetical Commentaries by Jerome (Ezekiel and Jeremiah) 18: Theodore de Bruyn: Exegetical Commentaries by Pelagius 19: Josef Lössl: Julian of Aeclanum as a Biblical Exegete 20: Marie Pauliat: Sermons 21: Jennifer Ebbeler: Pelagius, Letters, and Late Roman Epistolary Networks PART 4: Rhetoric 22: Andrew Chronister: Traditio patrum 23: Rafal Toczko: The Creation of Pelagianism (Augustine) 24: Jessica van't Westeinde: The Creation of Pelagianism (Jerome) 25: Geoffrey Dunn: The Creation of Pelagianism (Orosius, Roman Bishops, and Marius Mercator) 26: Giulio Malavasi: Pelagius against Jerome 27: Mathijs Lamberigts: Julian of Aeclanum's Critique on Augustine's View on Original Sin PART 5: Reception 28: Brenda Ihssen: Process and Possibility: Pelagius and Eastern Orthodox Theology 29: Francis X. Gumerlock: An Anonymous Treatise on Predestination from a Controversy in the Early-Sixth Century 30: Matthew Pereira: Pelagianism in the Sixth to Eighth Centuries 31: Brian Matz: Pelagianism in the Ninth Century 32: Guido Stucco: Echoes of the Pelagian Controversy from the 11th to 15th Centuries 33: Aaron Moldenhauer: Reformation and Counter-Reformation 34: Gaetano Lettieri: Reason without Grace. Pelagianism and Origenism in Jansens' Augustinus 35: Marc Bergermann: Pelagianism in Protestantism of the 17th and 18th Centuries 36: Michael Greve: Pelagianism in Twentieth Century Theological Discourse Francis X. Gumerlock: Appendix: Translation of Four Neglected Texts from the Pelagian Controversy