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Original sin in Augustine's Confessions by Rigby, Paul, 1941- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Idea Of Original Sin Owes Its Development More To Augustine Than To Any Other Individual. We Cannot Understand This Idea, Much Less Believe It, Unless We Consider His Primary Motive For Developing It. His 'confessions', A Masterpiece Of Personal Reflection, Reveals The Psychological Dynamic That Renders A Free Person's Implication In Social And Historical Evil Irreversible From The Beginning. The Author Traces This Interior Bondage Of The Will Through Augustine's Own Life From His Infancy And Youth, Through His Dramatic Conversion, To His Mature Years Of Reflection And Ministry As Bishop. It Presents Original Sin Not Only Autobiographically, But Also Historically, As The First And Universal Sin Of Mankind, And Primordially, As The Fundamental Cause And Meaning At The Root Of All Moral Impotence And Sin. This Volume Argues That The Doctrine Of Original Sin Stands Together With The Doctrine Of Grace As The Foundation Of Augustine's Teachings On Confession And Salvation; It Rejects A Recent Development In Augustine Studies That Reduces Augustine's Doctrine Of Original Sin To An Ancillary, Polemical Role As A Weapon In The Arsenal Against Pelagian Voluntarism. Above All, It Allows

Who reads Original sin in Augustine's Confessions?

Author

Rigby, Paul, 1941-

Publisher

University of Ottawa Press, c1987.

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780776601243

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, History