Agustine and Human Nature

Question 1

Concordia

Answer 1

Human friendship

Question 2

Cupiditas

Answer 2

(Selfish love)

-A love of worldly things and selfish desires

Question 3

Caritas

Answer 3

• Generous love

- A love of others and the virtues (agape)

Question 4

Concupiscence

Answer 4

Uncontrollable desire for physical pleasures and material things

Question 5

Ecclesia

Answer 5

Heavenly society, in contrast with earthly society

Question 6

Augustine and thinking like Manichees

Answer 6

Augustine through as humans we are in a battle with good vs evil and the individual has 2 souls pulling an individual

Question 7

Neoplatonism

Answer 7

Philosophical thinking arising from Plato

Question 8

Augustine’s conversion

Answer 8

Augustine converted to Christian at the age of 32 becoming a priest and then a bishop

Question 9

Augustine as a Christian

Answer 9

-He ordered the destruction of non-Christian places

Question 10

Augustine’s writings

Answer 10

Augustine wrote 93 formal works

Question 11

Augustine on Adana and Eve

Answer 11

-For Augustine when Adam and Eve ate the apple was the turning lint for all of creation

Question 12

Augustine after Adam and Eve ate apple

Answer 12

Augustine believe that Adam and Eve had a fruitful relationship with each other and with God

Question 13

Augustine and friendship

Answer 13

Assisting believes that friendship is essential for any as it is the highest form of sociable nature (Concordia)

Question 14

Augustine and original sin

Answer 14

• Augustine believed that we are born with freewill
• But Augustine also believed that we inherit original sin from Adam guilt and that we can’t do anything about original sin

Question 15

Evil in the world

Answer 15

The sin on the world is on humans misused freewill

Question 16

Original Sin and it’s effects on the will and human society

Answer 16

Adam and Eve passed a generational sin which was original sin through sexual intercourse

Augustine believed that earthly peace was just something created from human sin

Question 17

Augustine thoughts on Grace

Answer 17

Augustine believed that the only way to achieve peace and harmony with God was through Grace

Question 18

Augustine and the ‘Doctor of Grace’

Answer 18

Augustine was nicknamed the ‘Doctor of Grace’ because of the way he prescribed Grace

Question 19

Election

Answer 19

Augustine said that God would pre-elect for eternal life in heaven

Question 20

For Augustine Grace is understood as:

Answer 20

• The love and mercy of God
• A quality of God that is Calle of reaching the heart and will of a person
• Encourages the soul to praise God

Question 21

Eternal punishment

Answer 21

Augustine believed that the grace of God is the only thing that can save people from eternal punishment