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The Human Condition in Hilary of Poitiers - The Will and Original Sin between Origen and Augustine (Hardcover)
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The Human Condition in Hilary of Poitiers - The Will and Original Sin between Origen and Augustine (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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While he is more commonly known for his Trinitiarian works and
theology, this study assesses mid-fourth-century bishop Hilary of
Poitiers' view of the human condition. Isabella Image shows that
the Commentary on Psalm 118 is more closely related to Origen's
than previously thought. Image explains how his articulations of
sin, body and soul, the Fall and the will all parallel or echo
Origen's views in this work, but not necessarily in his Matthew
Commentary. Hilary has a doctrine of original sin ('sins of our
origin', peccata originis), which differs from the individual
personal sins and for which we are individually accountable. He
also articulates a fallen will which is in thrall to disobedience
and needs God's help, something God always gives as long as we show
the initiative. Hilary's idea of the fallen will may have developed
in tangent with Origen's thought, which uses Stoic ideas on the
process of human action in order to articulate the constraints on
purely rational responses. Hilary in turn influences Augustine, who
writes against the Pelagian bishop Julian of Eclanum citing Hilary
as an example of an earlier writer with original sin. Since Hilary
is known to have used Origen's work, and Augustine is known to have
used Hilary's, Hilary appears to be one of the stepping-stones
between these two great giants of the early church as the doctrines
of original sin and the fallen will developed. The Human Condition
in Hilary of Poitiers not only identifies Hilary's anthropological
thought, but also places it in the current of theological
development of the fourth century. It considers reception of Origen
in the mid-fourth century, before the criticisms of Epiphanius and
the debates in the Egyptian monastic communities. This work also
contributes to understanding of the tradition from which Augustine
received his doctrine of original sin.
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