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Latin
Souter, Alexander, Texts and Studies. Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature, ix, 2. Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St. Paul. (Cambridge, 1926)
 
English
De Bruyn, Theodore, Pelagius’s Commentary on St Paul’s Epistle to The Romans. (Oxford Early Christian Studies, 1998)
Mourant, John A, Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series), (The Catholic University of America Press, 1992) Passages from the writings of Pelagius are quoted by Augustine.
Rees, B. R., Pelagius - Life and Letters (Boydell Press, 1998)
Scheck, Thomas P, Pelagius: Commentaries on the Thirteen Epistles of Paul with the Libellus fidei, Ancient Christian Writers, 76. (The Newman Press, 2022)
Van de Veyer, Robert, The Letters of Pelagius - Celtic Soul Friend (Arthur James,Little Gidding Books, 1995)
         
STUDIES
Burns, J. Patout, The development of Augustine’s doctrine of operative grace (Études Augustiniennes, 1980)
Evans, Robert F., Pelagius: Inquiries and Reappraisals (Wipf and Stock, 2010)
Ferguson, John, Pelagius: A Historical and Theological Study (W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge, 1956)
Rees, B. R. Pelagius: A Reluctant Heretic (Boydell Press, 1988) - currently out of print
Souter, Alexander, Texts and Studies. Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature, ix, 1. Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St. Paul: Introduction. (Cambridge, 1922)
 
See individual chapters in
Bonner, Gerald, Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition: Augustine, Pelagianism, and Early Christian Northumbria (Variorum Collected Studies,Routledge, 1996) See particularly chapters: “Pelagianism and Augustine” and “Augustine and Pelagianism”
Brown, Peter, Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine (Wipf and Stock, 2007) See the chapter: “Pelagius and His Supporters: Aims and Environment”.
Creswell, Dennis R., St. Augustine’s Dilemma: Grace and Eternal Law in the Major Works of Augustine of Hippo (Peter Lang, 1997) (The wider Pelagian Controversy)
Dodaro, Robert and Lawless, George (editors), Augustine and his Critics (Routledge, 2002) See the chapter by James Wetzel: “Snares of Truth: Augustine on Free will and Predestination”.
Wetzel, James, Augustine and the Limits of Virtue (Cambridge, 2008)
Williams, Rowan (editor), The Making of Orthodoxy: Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick (Cambridge, 2002) See chapters by R. A. Markus, “The Legacy of Pelagius”; and L. Wickham, “Pelagianism in the East”.