central concern for him and his spiritual charges was to deal with the new established status of Christianity: were the affluent people among whom Pelagius ministered simply joining the Church as an easy option, without any real sense that they must transform their lives in the process?43 Pelagius was particularly concerned at what he read of the earlier works of Augustine: Augustine’s preoccupation with God’s majesty seemed to leave humankind helpless puppets who could easily abandon all responsibility for their conduct.
