The Church Fathers · c. 419–430; survives in Augustine's quotations
To Florus and To Turbantius
Julian of Eclanum · c. 386 – c. 455
What it is
The most formidable of Augustine's opponents, preserved almost entirely inside the books written to destroy him. Julian argues that a God who damns infants for another's act is worse than any human judge, that desire is a natural faculty like hunger, and that Augustine has never stopped hating the body.
Why it lasted
The strongest case ever made against original sin, made while the doctrine was being defined and by a bishop who lost his see for making it. That it survives at all is due to Augustine quoting him at length in order to answer him.
Scripture it works from
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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