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Persona #218

Pelagius

c. 360–c. 418
British monk and ascetic; theologian of moral capacity

Human moral power retained after the Fall — and condemned for saying so

Attribute Fingerprint

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Attribute Pelagius
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom NDet
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Limited
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method Magisterial
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Pelagius

Created and finite; standard Christian eschatological structure but with stronger emphasis on the temporal-moral career of the individual.

Space

Pelagius

Substantival, created; conventional.

Matter

Pelagius

Substantival, created; conventional.

Observer

Pelagius

Robust libertarian moral agency; no inherited guilt, no bondage of the will. Individuals are responsible for their own acts.

Energy

Pelagius

Conventional.

Information

Pelagius

Personal information conserved through immortality, with moral self-formation as the work of the present life.

Internal Tensions

Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.

Pelagius

Pelagius's extant writings are more moderate than his condemned theses; "Pelagianism" as the technical doctrine condemned at Carthage may be partly an Augustinian construction. The defeated position has been intermittently rehabilitated — by Erasmus, by the Counter-Reformation Molinists, by liberal modern theology, and by secular humanism — usually under other names.