Grace and the will according to Augustine
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Grace and the will according to Augustine
（Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 115）
Brill, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-378) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The doctrine on grace, one of the most discussed themes in his later years, was regarded by Augustine as the very core of Christianity. This book traces the gradual crystallisation of this teaching, including its unacceptable consequences (such as double predestination, inherited guilt which deserves eternal punishment, and its transmission through libidinous procreation). How did the reader of Cicero and "the books of the Platonists" reach the ideas that appear in his polemic against Julian (and which remind one of Freud rather than the Stoics or Plotinus)? That is the point of departure of this book. It surely cannot be expected that there is a definite answer to the question; rather, the aim is to follow and understand the development.
Table of Contents
I "Nothing Else do I Have but Will" (386-395)
1 God as the Guarantor of the World Order and the Giver of Knowledge (Philosophical Dialogues from Cassiciacum in 386)
2 The Universe of Will (Works before Augustine's Ordination as Presbyter: 387-390)
3 Pauline Themes (the Period of the Presbyterate: 391-395)
II "THE GRACE OF GOD CONQUERED" (395-411)
1 Answer to Simplicianus
2 Confessions
3 Other Works from the Beginning of the Episcopate
4 Anti-Donatist Works
III "THE WILL IS PREPARED BY THE LORD" (411-430)
1 Polemic against Pelagius and Caelestius (411-418)
2 Other Works from the Period 411-430
3 Polemic against Julian of Eclanum (419-430)
Conclusion
Appendix: Augustine as a Philosopher of the Will
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