Was Pelagius Really a Pelagian?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Dr. Leighton Flowers welcomes an Oxford scholar, Dr. Ali Bonner, to talk about her book, "The Myth of Pelagianism," which can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-abstract/71/1/374/5671779?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Dr. Bonner earned her Ph.D. on the manuscript transmission of Pelagius' Letter to Demetrias. Subsequently, she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, before being appointed to the Lectureship in Celtic History at Cambridge. Her research focuses on Pelagius and Faustus of Riez, two British authors of the fifth century who wrote in Latin, and she has published on St Patrick and Pelagius. She currently teaches Celtic history, that is, the history of the Brittonic speaking peoples and the Gaelic speaking peoples from AD 380 to 1170.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101.
0:13.3	Today we've got a special guest with us.
0:15.1	This is Dr. Allie Bonner.
0:16.8	Dr. Bonner, welcome to the program.
0:19.0	Thank you.
0:19.8	It's lovely to be here.
0:20.5	Thank you for inviting me on. Well, Dr. Bonner, welcome to the program. Thank you. It's lovely to be here. Thank you for inviting me on.
0:22.2	Well, Dr. Bonner, you're known for your work on Pelagius, the British monk from the early 5th century, late of the 4th century.
0:32.6	And I appreciate your work because I think it brings a lot of light to an otherwise heated discussion.
0:38.6	And you've written a book that's pretty well known among those of us theologians that like to study such things called the myth of Pelagianism.
0:48.5	And I just want to know a little bit more about your work.
0:50.4	Why write on Pelagianism and why title a book The Myth of Plagianism?
0:55.3	So the reason for writing about it is because Pelagius is the first known British author.
1:00.2	And in the longer perspective, I think he had an effect on the history of what was
1:05.1	happening within Britain in the late Roman and particularly the post-Roman period.
1:10.4	So this is about religious ideas, about what we might
1:14.6	call ideologies, but they have a social and potentially political application. So I was studying this and
1:24.3	looking at manuscripts and wanted to know what was gone in Britain and wanted to study a British author.
1:30.3	And because it was, he was a very important figure.
1:34.3	And as I say, I suspected that he had, there were implications for the history, social and political history and religious history of what was going in Britain.
1:43.3	And therefore, that's why I studied him.
1:46.0	That's why I studied Pelagius.
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