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The Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine's Later Works (Hardcover)
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The Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine's Later Works (Hardcover)
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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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