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Augustine’s teaching on human nature


Key Terms:


 Will: the part of human nature that makes free choices

 Sin: disobeying the will and commands of God

 Grace: God’s free and undeserved love for humanity, epitomised in the
sacrifice of Jesus on the cross

 The Fall: the biblical event in which Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s
command and ate the fruit from the forbidden tree in the Garden of
Eden; also used to refer to the imperfect state of humanity

 Neoplatonism: philosophical thinking arising from the ideas of Plato

 Redeemed: ‘saved’ from sin by the sacrifice of Christ

 Concordia: human friendship

 Cupiditas: ‘selfish love’, a love of worldly things of selfish desires

 Caritas: ‘generous love’, a love of others and of the virtues – equivalent
of agape

 Concupiscence: uncontrollable desire for physical pleasures and material
things

 Ecclesia: heavenly society, in contrast with earthly society

 Summum bonum: the highest, most supreme good

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