Against Two Letters of the Pelagians — Book I

St. Augustine of Hippo

1. 0. Greeting
2. 1. — Introduction: Address to Boniface.
3. 2. — Why Heretical Writings Must Be Answered.
4. 3. — Why He Addresses His Book to Boniface.
5. 4. [II.]— The Calumny of Julian — That the Catholics Teach that Free Will is Taken Away by Adam's Sin.
6. 5. — Free Choice Did Not Perish With Adam 's Sin. What Freedom Did Perish.
7. 6. [III.]— Grace is Not Given According to Merits.
8. 7. — He Concludes that He Does Not Deprive the Wicked of Free Will.
9. 8. [IV.]— The Pelagians Demolish Free Will.
10. 9. [V.]— Another Calumny of Julian — That It is Said that Marriage is Not Appointed by God.
11. 10. — The Third Calumny — The Assertion that Conjugal Intercourse is Condemned.
12. 11. [VI.]— The Purpose of the Pelagians in Praising the Innocence of Conjugal Intercourse.
13. 12. — The Fourth Calumny — That the Saints of the Old Testament are Said to Be Not Free from Sins.
14. 13. [VIII.]— The Fifth Calumny — That It is Said that Paul and the Rest of the Apostles Were Polluted by Lust.
15. 14. — That the Apostle is Speaking in His Own Person and that of Others Who Are Under Grace, Not Still Under Law.
16. 15. [IX.]— He Sins in Will Who is Only Deterred from Sinning by Fear.
17. 16. — How Sin Died, and How It Revived.
18. 17. [X.]— The Law is Spiritual, But I Am Carnal, To Be Understood of Paul.
19. 18. — How the Apostle Said that He Did the Evil that He Would Not.
20. 19. — What It is to Accomplish What is Good.
21. 20. — In Me, that Is, in My Flesh.
22. 21. — No Condemnation in Christ Jesus.
23. 22. — Why the Passage Referred to Must Be Understood of a Man Established Under Grace.
24. 23. [XI.]— What It is to Be Delivered from the Body of This Death.
25. 24. — He Concludes that the Apostle Spoke in His Own Person, and that of Those Who are Under Grace.
26. 25. [XII.]— The Sixth Calumny — That Augustine Asserts that Even Christ Was Not Free from Sins.
27. 26. [XIII.]— The Seventh Calumny — That Augustine Asserts that in Baptism All Sins are Not Remitted.
28. 27. — In What Sense Lust is Called Sin in the Regenerate.
29. 28. [XIV.]— Many Without Crime, None Without Sin.
30. 29. [XV.]— Julian Opposes the Faith of His Friends to the Opinions of Catholic Believers. First of All, of Free Will.
31. 30. — Secondly, of Marriage.
32. 31. — Thirdly, of Conjugal Intercourse.
33. 32. [XVI.]— The Aprons Which Adam and Eve Wore.
34. 33. — The Shame of Nakedness.
35. 34. [XVII.]— Whether There Could Be Sensual Appetite in Paradise Before the Fall.
36. 35. — Desire in Paradise Was Either None at All, or It Was Obedient to the Impulse of the Will.
37. 36. [XVIII.]— Julian's Fourth Objection, that Man is God's Work, and is Not Constrained to Evil or Good by His Power.
38. 37. [XIX.]— The Beginning of a Good Will is the Gift of Grace.
39. 38. [XX.]— The Power of God's Grace is Proved.
40. 39. [XXI.]— Julian's Fifth Objection Concerning the Saints of the Old Testament.
41. 40. [XXII.]— The Sixth Objection, Concerning the Necessity of Grace for All, and Concerning the Baptism of Infants.
42. 41. [XXIII.]— The Seventh Objection, of the Effect of Baptism.
43. 42. [XXIV.]— He Rebuts the Conclusion of Julian's Letter.

Augustine replies to a letter sent by Julian, as it was said, to Rome; and first of all vindicates the catholic doctrine from his calumnies; then discovers and confutes the heretical sense of the Pelagians hidden in that profession of faith which the author of the letter opposed to the Catholics.