Theology - Augustine on human nature

Question 1

Akrasia

Answer 1

Weakness of will

Question 2

Caritas

Answer 2

Generous love

Question 3

Concupiscence

Answer 3

Sexual lust and uncontrolled desires of all kinds such as food, power, money etc

Question 4

continence

Answer 4

self-restraint especially to abstain from sexual desires

Question 5

cupiditas

Answer 5

self-love, the will is driven by this

Question 6

grace

Answer 6

God’s generous undeserved and free act of love for the world expressed suprememly in the giving of his son Jesus Christ in order that humans might overcome their sinful natures

Question 7

Humanitarian principle

Answer 7

Proposes that humans get on better when each person rakes into account the interests of others

Question 8

libido

Answer 8

the instinctive sex drive or enerfy

Question 9

manicheism

Answer 9

a form of christianity which believed that suffering and evil in the world are not caused by god by a lower power

Question 10

ontology

Answer 10

the study of how something exists and the nature of its properties

Question 11

original sin

Answer 11

the christian notion that despite being created in the image of god, all humans fail to fulfill this potential and live in disharmony

Question 12

platonism

Answer 12

or neo-platonism: a term used to refer to the followers of plato in the third century. they believed that the soul can ascent to merge with god where it uncounted, truth, wisdom and happiness

Question 13

post lapsarian

Answer 13

the world after the fall of adam and eve, or simply the fallen world

Question 14

redemption

Answer 14

when humans are freed from sin, suffering and death. In christian thought redemption of the world is through jesus christ

Question 15

the fall

Answer 15

the moment descrived in genesis 3 when adam and eve rebelled against god and were punished by being expelled from eden. After the fall humans are in disharmony with God