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Those Manichaeans with whom we no longer share communion—that is, all those with whom we disagree—say that…
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Those Manichaeans with whom we no longer share communion—that is, all those with whom we disagree—say that free will was lost through the sin of the first man, Adam. They say that no one now has the power to live well, and that everyone is forced into sin by the necessity of their flesh.
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About this text Julian wrote in the early 400s, in the fight over Pelagius. This is later than the first three centuries of the church.
Fragments attributed to Julian; descriptions of opponents’ teaching are not his positive creed. Open the Latin source witness on each section.
Julian of Eclanum (c. 386–c. 455) was bishop of Eclanum in southern Italy until 418, when he was deposed and exiled for refusing to condemn Pelagius. The most learned Pelagian controversialist, he pursued Augustine across a decade of pamphlet war.
None of Julian's works survives directly; what remains is preserved in the long quotations of Augustine, who answered him book by book. Reconstructed from those hostile pages, Julian emerges as a formidable defender of free will, marriage, and the goodness of creation.
Edition Against Two Letters of the Pelagians I
Fragments attributed to Julian in Against Two Letters of the Pelagians I. Descriptions of opponents’ teaching are not his positive creed.
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