Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Pope Leo (c. 430-449) Teaching Baptismal Regeneration in "Anti-Pelagian Summaries of the Epistles of Saint Paul"

  

XI. Concerning the sacrament of baptism, in which we die to sin so that we might live to God (6:3). (Pope Leo, “Anti-Pelagian Summaries of the Epistles of Saint Paul: To the Romans,” c. 430-449, trans. Francis X. Gumerlock, in Francis X. Gumerlock, “Translation of Four Neglected Texts from the Pelagian Controversy,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Pelagian Controversy, ed. Anthony Dupont, Giulio Malavasi, and Brian Matz [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025], 595. According to Gumerlock, “These summaries, or chapter headings, . . . were found in a codex at Fulda, written in the year 546” [Ibid., 594])