Augustine on the will: a theological account

by Komline, Han-luen Kantzer

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

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"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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 469 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780190948801, 0190948809
oclc:on1108549488
LC Classification:BR65.A9
Dewey Decimal:233/.5

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Conversions of the will -- 1. The created will: the hinge of the soul -- 2. The fallen will: a link in sin's chain -- 3. What is in our power -- 4. God's gardening -- 5. The redeemed will: a root of love -- 6. Christ and the will: agony in the garden -- 7. The Holy Spirit and the will: intervention and analogy -- 8. The eschatological will: full freedom at last -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index to the works of Augustine -- Scripture index -- Subject and name index.

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