# Ad Simplicianum and later anti-Pelagian books teach inherited guilt and infant need of baptism

Date: 396

## The fact

From the mid-390s, as later transmitted, Augustine teaches that all are bound in Adam and that infants need baptism against inherited guilt. The instrument is that doctrinal heading. He presents it as Paul read in Latin Africa, not as a laboratory series. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He wrote the theology. Later pastors applied it to infants. He did not run a modern clinic. High on the texts; medium on unique later stigma coefficients.

## Context

Simplicianus of Milan is a named addressee of the 396 book. Sharing Pauline interpretation with that bishop is required. Pelagian controversy after 412 is the fight that hardens the heading. Confessions' infant-jealousy passages sit in the same file without being a second treatise. The setting of Ad Simplicianum and later anti-Pelagian books teach inherited guilt and infant need of baptism is the public file around 0396-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, original sin / grace at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Britannica — original sin / Augustine neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, original sin / grace (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Britannica — original sin / Augustine neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, original sin / grace (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Worsening path from Ad Simplicianum and later anti-Pelagian books teach inherited guilt and infant need of baptism on 0396-01-01. A public inherited-guilt heading that binds infants is a rights-status path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not date this to a later confessional textbook. Confessions narrates the turn; Ad Simplicianum is an early systematic neighbour. Mixed effects of Ad Simplicianum and later anti-Pelagian books teach inherited guilt and infant need of baptism are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Ad Simplicianum and later anti-Pelagian books teach inherited guilt and infant need of baptism under 0396-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of Ad Simplicianum and later anti-Pelagian books teach inherited guilt and infant need of baptism under 0396-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Ad Simplicianum and later anti-Pelagian books teach inherited guilt and infant need of baptism. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0396-01-01 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.

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

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-original-sin