Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
Monday, December 04, 2023
Early Augustine vs. later (or, predistination or freed will?)
Interestingly, some of Augustine’s opponents in this battle used Augustine’s own early writings, in which he argued that a rational being can only be corrupted if the person’s will consents to the corruption, as ammunition against him. Augustine holds strongly to divine predestination, but also wants to maintain human responsibility for sin. How the two are to be reconciled is a problem Augustine bequeaths to the later church.—Evans, A History of Western Philosophy, 145
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