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Augustinian soteriology refers to Augustine of Hippo (354–430) view on human salvation and God's providence.His thinking was shaped by early encounters with Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and Manichaeism.
The Soliloquies of Augustine is a two-book document written in 386–387 AD [1] by the Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo. [ 2 ] The book has the form of an "inner dialogue" in which questions are posed, discussions take place and answers are provided, leading to self-knowledge. [ 3 ]
Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum (Antiquities of Human and Divine Things) [1] was one of the chief works of Marcus Terentius Varro (1st century BC). The work has been lost , but having been substantially quoted by Augustine in his De Civitate Dei (published AD 426) its contents can be reconstructed in parts.
Augustine offered the Divine command theory, a theory which proposes that an action's status as morally good is equivalent to whether it is commanded by God. [16] [17] Augustine's theory began by casting ethics as the pursuit of the supreme good, which delivers human happiness, Augustine argued that to achieve this happiness, humans must love objects that are worthy of human love in the ...
Augustine of Hippo (/ ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; [22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo is not only the earliest known example of spiritual autobiography, but is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written. It consists of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400, and deals with Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.
Augustine's argument continued, according to Niebuhr, by proposing that humans have a tendency to sin because of a biologically inherited nature and rejected the Pelagian view that human will could overcome sin on its own. [57] Niebuhr believed Augustine's argument placed sin in the human will, which was corrupted by Adam's original sin.
Considering the fact that the sins Augustine describes are of a rather common nature (e.g. the theft of pears when a young boy), these examples might also enable the reader to identify with the author and thus make it easier to follow in Augustine's footsteps on his personal road to conversion.