The Doctrine of Sin, The Second Period, 250-730 A.D. (3): The Pelagian Controversy: Life of Augustine

It is a venturesome and delicate undertaking to write one's own life (the undersigned believes that our readers will be interested in an account of Augustine's life, particularly with a view to the Pelagian controversy, as set forth by Philip Schaff in his history of the Christian Church, Vol. III, 988 ff.), even though that life be a masterpiece of nature or of the grace of God, and therefore most worthy to be described. Of all autobiographies none has so happily avoided the reef of vanity and...