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The Church Fathers · 415
On Nature and Grace
Augustine of Hippo · 354–430
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What it is
A line-by-line answer to Pelagius's On Nature, conceding that human nature was created good and insisting that it is now wounded and cannot heal itself.
Why it lasted
The clearest statement of the difference between the two positions, and the reason Pelagius's own book can be partly reconstructed.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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