Grace for Grace: The Debates after Augustine and Pelagius

Chronology of Key Events

xxix CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS 415  Synod of Diospolis (Pelagius declared orthodox by Palestinian bishops) 418 Council of Carthage (Pelagian teachings condemned) Augustine, Letter 194 (to Sixtus) 418–22 Theodore of Mopsuestia, Against the Defenders of Original Sin 426–27 Augustine, Letters 214, 215; On Grace and Free Will; On Admonition and Grace (to Hadrumentum monks) 427/28 Prosper and Hilary, Letters 225, 226 (to Augustine) 428/29 Augustine, On the Predestination of the Saints; On the Gift of Perseverance (reply to Prosper and Hilary) 430 Death of Augustine 430s John Cassian, Conferences and Institutes Prosper, On Grace and Free Will: Against the Lecturer (response to Conference 13) Vincent of Lérins, Commonitories (possibly a response to On Grace) 431 Pope Celestine, Letter 21, “Apostolici verba” (response to Prosper’s and Hilary’s appeal for assistance against the critics of Augustine in Gaul) 440s–50s Prosper, Book of Sentences of Aug.; Chronicles; Official Pronouncements of the Apostolic See on Divine Grace and Free Will Pope Leo the Great, Tome to Flavian 455 ca. Death of Prosper 475 Faustus of Riez, On the Grace of God (treatise directed against Lucidus’s teachings on predestination) xxx CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS 520s Pope Hormisdas, Letter to Possessor (Possessor, papal legate in Constantinople, debates John Maxentius, leader of the Scythian monks, over grace and free will) Maxentius, Chapters against the Nestorians and Pelagians; Booklet on the Faith (response to the official Roman position on Faustus’s and Augustine’s orthodoxy) Fulgentius of Ruspe, On the Truth of Predestination; Against Faustus 529 Caesarius of Arles (469/70–542; monk, abbot, and bishop) Second Council of Orange Monte Cassino established by Benedict 531 Pope Boniface II confirms canons of Orange II 850s Gottshalk of Orbais, On Predestination Hincmar of Rhiems, On the Predestination of God and Free Will John Scotus Eriugena, On Divine Predestination Councils of Quercy (853), Valence (855), Savonnières (859) Grace for Grace ...