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The Works of Saint Augustine: A New Translation for the 21st Century. Translated by Hill, Edmund. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press. Bird, Benedict (2021). "The Development Of Augustine's Views On Free Will And Grace, And The Conflicting Claims To Consistency Therewith By John Owen And John Goodwin". Westminster Theological Journal. 83 (1): 73– 101.
De libero arbitrio voluntatis (On Free Choice of the Will), often shortened to De libero arbitrio, is a book by Augustine of Hippo which seeks to resolve the problem of evil in Christianity by asserting that free will is the cause of all suffering. The first of its three volumes was completed in 388; the second and third were written between ...
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.
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.
The lower or animal nature in man was subject to the control of reason and the will subject to God. As a result of original sin, according to Catholics, human nature has been weakened and wounded, subject to ignorance, suffering, the domination of death, and the inclination to sin and be evil (CCC 405, 418).
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 ...
Augustinus seu doctrina Sancti Augustini de humanae naturae sanitate, aegritudine, medicina adversus Pelagianos et Massilianses, (transl. "Augustine, or the Doctrine of Saint Augustine on the Health, Sickness, and Medicine of Human Nature, Against the Pelagians and the Massilians") known by its short title Augustinus, is a theological work in Latin by Cornelius Jansen.
One cannot say, though, that the action of God on human nature conveyed in the term divinization (theosis) is alien to the Roman Catholic teaching, as is evident in Augustine repeating the famous phrase of Athanasius of Alexandria: "To make human beings gods, he was made man, who was God" (Deos facturus qui homines erant, homo factus est qui ...