THEO 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hippo Regius, Christian Vision, Original Sin
21 Jan 2015
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5) explain the notion of original sin in augustine of hippo and its relationship with the human free will. Saint augustine, was one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of early christianity and, while serving (396-430) as bishop of hippo regius, the leading figure in the church of north. He had a profound influence on the subsequent development of western thought and culture and, more than any other person, shaped the themes and defined the problems that have characterized the western tradition of christian theology. Among his many writings considered classics, the two most celebrated are his semiautobiographical confessions, which contains elements of mysticism, and city of god, a christian vision of history. Augustine believed that original sin manifested itself in sexual desire. His attitude towards sex was not unusual for his time: augustine lived in an ascetic age, where the sensitive man already felt humiliated by his body and where his clerical readers would have been increasingly celibate .
