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The Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine's Later Works / Robert J. O'Connell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resource (363 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823211722
  • 9780823296545
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  • 233/.5
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The De libero arbitrio III -- 2. All Quiet on the African Front -- 3. The Pelagians Raise the Question of the Soul -- 4· Augustine Continues to Hesitate -- 5. Augustine "Consults" Jerome: Letter 166 -- 6. Letters 169 to 174: Progress on the De Trinitate -- 7. The Message of Romans 9:11 Takes Effect -- 8. The Soul in the De Genesi ad litteram -- 9. The De Trinitate -- 10. The Condition and Destiny of Humanity in the De civitate Dei -- Epilogue: On Reading the Retractations -- Appendix: Plotinus and Augustine's Final Theory of Soul -- Bibliography -- Indices
Summary: This book rounds off Robert O’Connell’s study of St. Augustine’s view of the human condition, begun is St. Augustine’s Early Theory of Man, A.D. 386-391, and continued in St. Augustine’s Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul. The central thesis of the first book, and guiding hypothesis of the second, proposed that Augustine thought of us, in “Plotinian” terms, as “fallen souls,” and that in all sincerity he interpreted the teachings of Scripture as reflecting that same view. Professor O’Connell sees the weightiest objection to his proposition as stemming from what scholars generally agree to be Augustine’s firm rejection of that view in his later works. The central contention in this new book is that Augustine did indeed object his earlier theory, but only for a short time. He came to see the text of Romans 9:11, apparently, as compelling that rejection. But, then, his firm belief that all humans are guilty of Original Sin would have left traducianism as his only acceptable way of understanding the origin of sinful human souls. The materialistic cast of traducianism, however, always repelled Augustine. Hence, he struggles to elaborate a fresh interpretation of Romans 9:11, and he eventually finds one that permits him to return to a slightly revised version of his earlier view. That theory, Professor O’Connell argues, is encased in both the De civitate Dei and the final version of De Trinitate.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The De libero arbitrio III -- 2. All Quiet on the African Front -- 3. The Pelagians Raise the Question of the Soul -- 4· Augustine Continues to Hesitate -- 5. Augustine "Consults" Jerome: Letter 166 -- 6. Letters 169 to 174: Progress on the De Trinitate -- 7. The Message of Romans 9:11 Takes Effect -- 8. The Soul in the De Genesi ad litteram -- 9. The De Trinitate -- 10. The Condition and Destiny of Humanity in the De civitate Dei -- Epilogue: On Reading the Retractations -- Appendix: Plotinus and Augustine's Final Theory of Soul -- Bibliography -- Indices

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This book rounds off Robert O’Connell’s study of St. Augustine’s view of the human condition, begun is St. Augustine’s Early Theory of Man, A.D. 386-391, and continued in St. Augustine’s Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul. The central thesis of the first book, and guiding hypothesis of the second, proposed that Augustine thought of us, in “Plotinian” terms, as “fallen souls,” and that in all sincerity he interpreted the teachings of Scripture as reflecting that same view. Professor O’Connell sees the weightiest objection to his proposition as stemming from what scholars generally agree to be Augustine’s firm rejection of that view in his later works. The central contention in this new book is that Augustine did indeed object his earlier theory, but only for a short time. He came to see the text of Romans 9:11, apparently, as compelling that rejection. But, then, his firm belief that all humans are guilty of Original Sin would have left traducianism as his only acceptable way of understanding the origin of sinful human souls. The materialistic cast of traducianism, however, always repelled Augustine. Hence, he struggles to elaborate a fresh interpretation of Romans 9:11, and he eventually finds one that permits him to return to a slightly revised version of his earlier view. That theory, Professor O’Connell argues, is encased in both the De civitate Dei and the final version of De Trinitate.

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