Augustine's anti-Pelagian campaign seeks synod and imperial condemnation of rival teachers of grace

From about 412 Augustine wrote against Pelagius and Caelestius, pressing African synods and then imperial authority to condemn their teaching on grace and infant baptism. The instrument is that campaign. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He wrote tracts and letters to African bishops and to the court. Councils condemned. He did not sit as pope.

Context

Pelagius is the named opponent. Sharing condemnation with Aurelius of Carthage and with the court of Honorius is required. Original-sin theology is a neighbouring doctrinal row. Letter 93 is a Donatist, different file. The setting of Augustine's anti-Pelagian campaign seeks synod and imperial condemnation of rival teachers of grace is the public file around 0412-01-01. Driver political-polarization is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

Worsening path from Augustine's anti-Pelagian campaign seeks synod and imperial condemnation of rival teachers of grace on 0412-01-01. A heresy-campaign that asks civil power to bind teachers is a polarisation path of medium-high weight. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Shared responsibility is part of Augustine's anti-Pelagian campaign seeks synod and imperial condemnation of rival teachers of grace. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0412-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.