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

Date: 412

## The fact

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](/people/marcus-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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: New Advent — Augustine, anti-Pelagian treatises neighbourhood at https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1503.htm (New Advent / translated Fathers). Independent locator: Britannica — Pelagianism / Augustine at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: New Advent — Augustine, anti-Pelagian treatises neighbourhood (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1503.htm; New Advent / translated Fathers). Independent carrier: Britannica — Pelagianism / Augustine (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: New Advent — Augustine, anti-Pelagian treatises neighbourhood (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1503.htm; New Advent / translated Fathers).

## Significance

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.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Augustine's anti-Pelagian campaign seeks synod and imperial condemnation of rival teachers of grace under 0412-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of Augustine's anti-Pelagian campaign seeks synod and imperial condemnation of rival teachers of grace under 0412-01-01.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not store 1517 as Hippo. Luther later used the heading; that is reception. Council of Carthage 418 is implementation. Mixed effects of Augustine's anti-Pelagian campaign seeks synod and imperial condemnation of rival teachers of grace are separate paths.

## People

- Augustine Of Hippo: https://factrail.ai/people/augustine-of-hippo

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine
- https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1503.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-anti-pelagian