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Semi-Pelagiano, was not a Pelagio relative, but a reduced Pelagianismo.

Recapturing the cause of Pelagio, it arises what was called the "Semi-Pelagianismo", assuming what they understood it was an intermediate point between the positions of Agustín and Pelagio. A reduced pelagianismo, who was accepting partly the effects, consequences and scope of Adam's sin, so much in him as in his posterity, but who reserves to the man a dose of good will as to be able to cooperate with the God's grace in the conversion.

The Semi-Pelagianismo teaches that the man with his own natural powers is enabled to give the first step towards the conversion, and then, achieves the assistance of the Holy Spirit. A maxim that characterizes the semipelagianismo is “it is up to me to be ready to believe, and to the God's grace to attend to me”.

The leaders of the Protestant Reform of the XVIth Century pushed back both the Pelagianismo and the Semi-Pelagianismo, on the base of which both doctrine systems were opposite to the Biblical educations. Following Agustín, the reformers recaptured the educations about the God's sovereignty, the entire human depravity and the unconditional election. These were the positions supported by Lutero, Zuinglio, Bullinger, Bucer and, of course, by Juan Calvino, the Theologian of the Reform.

Saying is of step, the most important literary work written by Lutero, an Augustinian monk, is The Certain Will, an apology against “the free will” defended by Desiderio Erasmo in his Diatribe. So annoying Lutero was with the defended for Erasmo, who reproaches him for using all his ingenuity, talent and style for something so unworthy. And he compares what so vilely it had done in spite of taking a salver of thin silver to load ordure. The semipelagianismo had come to this repugnance tone opposite to the zeal for the “alone Scriptura” of Lutero and other reformers of the Church.

Martin Luther wrote about the original sin: "In accordance with the apostle and his simple sense of being in Christ Jesus, it is not merely a quality insufficiency in the will, or a mere lighting insufficiency in his intellect, or of force in the memory. On the contrary, it is a finished depravity of the whole honesty and the skill of all power of the body, as of the soul, and of the interior and entire exterior of the man. In addition to this, it is an inclination to the evil, a repugnance to the good thing, an inclination put up towards the light and the knowledge; it is the love to the error and the darkness, a leakage of the good works, and a hatred of them, one to run towards the evil...”

That's why, both Lutero and other reformers, stopped road surfaces in which it is “Only for Christ”, “Only for Grace” and “Only for Faith” that the man can be safe. And in turn you are "alone" of the reform, they are not but Pablo's echo: "Because by grace you have been saved by means of the faith; this does not come from you but it is the God's gift.” (Efesios 2:8)