ABSTRACT
Julian considered the Bible and Patristics as the actual building blocks of positive theology. By linking Julian's appeal to Aristotle with his own appeal to Paul Augustine drew attention to the core of the controversy. Apart from the injustice, which in his view was done to Pelagius and Caelestius, what enraged Julian most was Augustine's doctrine of an inherited original sin, which he saw endorsed by the condemnation of 418. Julian considered this doctrine essentially Manichaean. There are no documents that would suggest that Julian, who became bishop of Aeclanum in 417, intervened in the Pelagian controversy prior to 418. But he seems to have studied the relevant issues closely. He knew Augustine's work and was probably acquainted with Pelagius, with whose views he sympathized. In Julian's view, what Augustine attributes to his God is by definition injustice.
