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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

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.


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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