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Title: A distinctly modern-sounding voice from 400 AD
Review: This translation and commentary offers a significant glimpse into early Christianity, written around 400 AD by the articulate churchman Pelagius, who was later denounced for opposing Augustine's doctrine of original sin. Here we have an interpretation of Paul's letters as many early leaders viewed them. Paul's praise of female church leaders is affirmed rather than corrected: "even today women deaconesses in the east are known to minister to their own sex in baptism, or in the ministry of the Word". (p. 150-151) Freedom is upheld as a Christian value, not deplored as a sin. Basically, Pelagius sounds far more like a modern Christian than his detractors. He is also more in tune with the expansive spirit of primitive Christianity.-author of Correcting Jesus
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