susanstinson

Pelagius wasn't actually Greek, he was probably of British Isles (no one's sure quite where) origin, but more pertinently he was a Christian scholar/philosopher of the fourth century whose work was both popular in its day and, not surprisingly given its tenets, condemned as heretical by the Church. Pelagius, who refused to believe in the idea of "original sin" or of a special state of grace that devolves onto the person due to baptism (among other things) believed essentially that human capacities are given by God and are in and of themselves neutral, it being relevant only how the individual uses and develops those capacities. He also thought that the idea of divine Grace being the key that lets Christians do their Christian thing was a load of hooey, and that any human being could be virtuous (or not) as an issue of will.

Unsurprisingly, Augustine regarded Pelagius as his personal nemesis. Pope Innocent I was also none too big a fan. Ultimately, the 8 tenets of what is now called the Pelagian Heresy were "corrected" through the canonization of eight corresponding points of Church doctrine under Pope Zosimus, during the Council of Carthage of 418 CE.

As a champion of free will and personal investment in continuously-developed ethical systems, and a believer that one does not have to belong to a particular fan club in order to engage with the Divine, I consider myself at least partially a Pelagian, so there's the "quasi-Pelagian" part.

Philoparthenos is Greek, but it's easy Greek. Philo = friend of, liker of; parthenos = virgin.