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...Named for the 4th to sth century British monk Pelagius, who held that man could achieve salvation by good works. Pelagianism was branded heretical by five church councils, which upheld the orthodox Christian position that, while good works are important, faith-and hence salvation-depends upon the grace...
Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History--"Augustine would never say to Pelagius... as Socrates would say to Thrasymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the university must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian one.... It is not the business of the historian to inculcate belief...
...common agreement the University is "secular" and its teaching function toward the undergraduate demands that religious preconceptions be discounted as much as possible. Gilmore gives an example of the different ways in which a church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius...'as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
...common agreement the University is "secular" and its teaching function toward the undergraduate demands that religious preconceptions be discounted as much as possible. Gilmore gives an example of the different ways in which a church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius ...' as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
...Pelagius, excommunicated for heresy in the 5th Century, has been identified with the belief that man could be saved by good works alone...