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Augustine on the will : a theological account / Han-luen Kantzer Komline

Author
Komline, Han-luen Kantzer
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
xv, 469 pages ; 25 cm

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Contents
The created will : the hinge of the soul -- The fallen will : a link in the chain -- The growth of the good will : what is in our power -- The growth of the good will : God's gardening -- The redeemed will : a root of love -- Christ and the good will : agony in the garden -- The Holy Spirit and the will : intervention and analogy -- The eschatological will : full freedom at last.
Summary
"By analyzing a variety of texts from across Augustine's career, Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account traces the development of Augustine's thinking on the human will. Augustine's most creative contributions to the notion of the human will do not derive from articulating a monolithic, universal definition. He identifies four types of human will: the created will, which he describes as a hinge; the fallen will, a link in a chain binding human beings to sin; the redeemed will, which is a root of love; and the fully free will to be enjoyed in the next life when perfection is made complete. His mature view is "theologically differentiated," consisting of four distinct types of human will, which vary according to these diverse theological scenarios. His innovation consists in distinguishing these types with a detail and clarity unprecedented by any thinker before him. Augustine's mature view of the will is constructed in intensive dialogue with other Christian thinkers, and, most of all, with the Christian scriptures. Its basic features shape, and are shaped by, his doctrines of Christ and the Holy Spirit, as well as creation and grace, making it impossible to abstract his views on willing from his account of the central Christian doctrines of Christology, Pneumatology, and the Trinity. The multiple facets of Augustine's conception of will have been cut to fit the shape of his theology and the biblical story it seeks to describe. From Augustine, we inherit a theological account of the will. Augustine Will Free will Voluntas Uoluntas Grace Fall creation eschaton Christ"--
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ISBN
9780190948801 (hardback)
0190948809
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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