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Augustine (354-430 A.D.) forms the connecting link
between Greek thought and Scholastic speculation.
He was the greatest of the Latin Fathers of the
Christian Church. Adventures
in Philosophy: St. Augustine - The
Classic Philosophers: St.
Augustine
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The City of
God
Main Ideas: The essential nature of man
is will, and no man wills the true God to
be god unless he is touched by Divine
Grace. Theology is faith seeking
understanding; man has faith in order that
he may understand. History has at its
beginning the Creation; at its center,
Christ, and, as its consummation, the
judgment and transformation. Because God
had doreknowledge, he knew that man's will
would be misdirected and that evil would
thereby come into the world; but he also
knew that through his grace good could be
brought from evil. History is divided by
two cities formed by alternative loves:
the earthly city by the love of self, and
the heavenly city by the love of God.
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The
Confessions
Main Ideas: How can an eternal God be
the cause of anything evil? God is not the
cause of evil, for evil has no genuine
existence; evil is the absence of the
good, the corruption of possibilities, as
in the human will. Only the parts of
creation, not the whole, can partake of
evil, the privation of the good. By faith
the corruption of the human will is cured.
The question as to what God was doing
before he created the world is a senseless
question, since "before" the creation
would make sense only if God had not
created time; God's creative acts are not
in time.
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