Augustine's Way into the Will: The Theological and Philosophical Significance of De Libero Arbitrio. By Simon Harrison
Augustine tells us that De Libero Arbitrio (Lib. Arb.) was composed over a period of years: ‘I began it as a layman, I completed it as a presbyter’ (Perseu. 12.30). The first of its three books can be dated to his stay in Rome in the winter of 387/8, and the second and third to roughly 396. The work...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 806-808 |
| Review of: | Augustine's way into the will (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006) (Dowler, Edward)
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| Summary: | Augustine tells us that De Libero Arbitrio (Lib. Arb.) was composed over a period of years: ‘I began it as a layman, I completed it as a presbyter’ (Perseu. 12.30). The first of its three books can be dated to his stay in Rome in the winter of 387/8, and the second and third to roughly 396. The work is often adduced as evidence of a shift in Augustine's thinking from a Platonically inspired optimism about human capacities, reflected in book 1: ‘what is so much in the power of the will as the will itself?’ (1.12.27), towards the darker vision of books 2 and 3, which, inspired primarily by St Paul, speak more of the incapacity and difficulty of human beings under original sin., This view of Lib. Arb. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln091 |