Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Augustine's compatibilism
Abstract : In analysing Augustine's views on freedom it is standard to draw two distinctions; one between an earlier emphasis on human freedom and a later insistence that God alone governs human destiny, and another between pre-lapsarian and post-lapsarian freedom. These distinctions are real and im...
| Author: | Katherin A. Rogers |
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| Published: |
S.n.,
s.l.,
2004
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| Volume: | 40 |
| Pages: | 415-435 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Abstract, 415. |
| Periodical: | Religious Studies |
| Number: | 4 |
| Format: | Article |
| Topic: | -
Doctrine
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Man
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[Liberté. Délectation victorieuse. Volonté]
- Doctrine > From man to God > Evil. Sin > Original sin (concupiscentia) > Original Sin |
| Status: | Needs Review |
| Summary: | Abstract : In analysing Augustine's views on freedom it is standard to draw two distinctions; one between an earlier emphasis on human freedom and a later insistence that God alone governs human destiny, and another between pre-lapsarian and post-lapsarian freedom. These distinctions are real and important, but underlying them is a more fundamental consistency. Augustine is a compatibilist from his earliest work on freedom through his final anti-Pelagian writings, and the freedom possessed by the un-fallen and the fallen will is a compatibilist freedom. This leaves Augustine open to the charge that he makes God the ultimate cause of sin. |
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Augustinian Compatibilism and the Doctrine of Election