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Author Couenhoven, Jesse.

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

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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 Introduction: Reaping what we did not sow -- Part one. Augustinian doctrines. Peccatum originale -- The explanatory power of original sin -- Sickness, sin, and Augustine's compatibilism -- Part two. Ownership and inheritance. An Augustinian conception of responsibility -- Augustinian compatibilism -- Responsibility without freedom -- Responsibility under necessity.
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Subject Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Philosophical theology.
Philosophical theology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Couenhoven, Jesse. Stricken by sin, cured by Christ. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199948697 (DLC) 2012045054 (OCoLC)827261056
ISBN 9780199948703 (electronic book)
0199948704 (electronic book)
9780199948697
0199948690