Stricken by sin, cured by Christ : agency, necessity, and culpability in Augustinian theology / Jesse Couenhoven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Couenhoven, Jesse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Augustine.

Philosophical theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a discussion of responsibility and blame focused and shaped by St. Augustine's theology of sin and grace, and the controversies that surround those topics. It critically appropriates ideas central to an influential and controversial figure and doctrine, in conversation with expert readers of Augustine, recent philosophical treatments of free will and responsibility, and a broad array of theological voices.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Reaping What We Did Not Sow; I The Scandal of Original Sin; II On Responsibility; III Chapter Overview; PART ONE: Augustinian Doctrines; 1. Peccatum Originale; 1.1 Reading Augustine Backward; 1.2 Primal Sin; 1.3 Solidarity with Adam: "In Adam's fall, we sinned all"; 1.4 Inherited Sin, Two Ways; 1.5 Sin's Penalties; 1.6 The Transmission of Original Sin; 2. The Explanatory Power of Original Sin; 2.1 The Conceptual Center of the Doctrine of Original Sin; 2.2 What Is Attractive about Inherited Sin?; 2.3 Concluding Thoughts

3. Sickness, Sin, and Augustine's Compatibilism3.1 Collective Responsibility and Human Unity; 3.2 "God has no enemies in a state of freedom"; 3.3 Love's Necessities; 3.4 The Liberum Arbitrium of the Voluntas; 3.5 Necessity, Fatalism, and Force; 3.6 The Sinner's Responsibility; 3.7 Responsibility and Grace; 3.8 Conclusion; PART TWO: Ownership and Inheritance; 4. An Augustinian Conception of Responsibility; 4.1 From Ancient Practice to Modern Theory; 4.2 Personal Responsibility: A Minimal Account; 5. Augustinian Compatibilism; 5.1 Minimal Deep Responsibility and Control

5.2 Personal Ownership, Belief, and Love5.3 Responsibility and Proper Function; 5.4 Proper Function and Reason Responsiveness; 5.5 Responsibility and Disease; 5.6 Summary and Conclusion; 6. Responsibility without Freedom; 6.1 Responsibility without Freedom-Talk; 6.2 Involuntary Sins; 6.3 The Problem of Luck; 6.4 Responsibility For Character; 7. Responsibility Under Necessity; 7.1 Responsibility, Grace, and Original Sin; 7.2 Original Sins; 7.3 Should We Believe This Doctrine?; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-994870-4

OCLC:

843880822