Pelagius's Commentary on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans [Paperback]

The Pelagian controversy has secured an enduring place for Pelagius in the history of Western Christian thought. Few of Pelagius' writings, however, have been preserved, and until recently none was available in English translation. This volume presents Pelagius' commentary on Romans for the first time in English. The commentary, one of thirteen on the Pauline epistles, dates from the time when Pelagius was active in Rome, before he became embroiled in controversy, but already there are adumbrations of the later debate and signs of different currents of thought in Italy and beyond. In his introduction Theodore de Bruyn discusses the context in which Pelagius wrote the commentary and the issues which shaped his interpretation of Romans. He also takes up questions about the edition of the commentary. The translation is annotated with references to Pelagius' contemporaries, and a new recension of Pelagius' text of Romans is presented in an appendix.

de Bruyn's volume does much to illumine the world of late antique Rome and to reveal the thought of one of its most prominent teachers. --Theological Studies

Students of early Christian literature...welcome the publication of this work....[This work] serves as an excellent resource for students of late antiquity, including those interested in ecclesiastical history, theological anthropology, Manichaean religion, Augustinian studies, or the intellectual history of fourth-century Italy. --Comptes Rendus

This slim volume provides a useful resource for those interested in either the thought of the early Church or the history of the interpretation of Paul's epistle to the Romans. --Journal for the Study of the Old Testament