POLS 300 : St. Augustine study guide
Document Summary
The christian narrative is the story of what is seen in the bible. Original sin because adam and even sinned, everyone else are sinners too. Saeculum time between creation and final judgment (time was linear) Prelapsarian have original innocence (time in garden before eating fruit) /postlapsarian have original sin. Divine grace unmerited/undeserved love of god. Providence idea that god created everything and oversees everything. Augustine emphasized the importance of the will, the ability to choose between good and evil. The fundamental religious duty is to love and serve god. The law of nature was a universal code of what was right and wrong. It was the idea that god would come to earth and take the form of a human. God is the ultimate wisdom; philosopher is a lover of wisdom, so therefore a philosopher is a lover of god: describe conditions in the garden of eden.
