Brewer's: Pelagianism

The system or doctrines taught by Pelagius (q.v.). He denied what is termed birth-sin or the taint of Adam, and he maintained that we have power of ourselves to receive or reject the Gospel.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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