ABSTRACT A Study on the Evil of St. Augustinus Lee, Hyoung Woo Dept. of Graduate School Theology Hyup Sung University Supervised by Professor Lee, Choong Bum St. Augustinus is honored as the greatest Father through Christian fathers. He was born between a pagan father and a fervent believer mother a...
ABSTRACT A Study on the Evil of St. Augustinus Lee, Hyoung Woo Dept. of Graduate School Theology Hyup Sung University Supervised by Professor Lee, Choong Bum St. Augustinus is honored as the greatest Father through Christian fathers. He was born between a pagan father and a fervent believer mother at the Numidia Thagaste Nov. 13. A.D. 354. He was educated at Thagaste for the first time. He had lived and was affected lots of sensuous temptation at the Carthage until 371 to 384, and then he grew away from Monica’s religion, Christianity. Reading Cicero’s Hortensius, he tried to find the truth beginning a philosophical awareness about the truth. St. Augustinus joined Manichaeanism thinking that it solved self-problem better than the Bible. He had a problem about evil’s foundation, thought the solution, and did not understand the spiritual reality. When he met Manichaeanism, it explained a reasonable description somehow. But as he talked with Faustus, Manichaean bishop, he disappointed not by listening expected answer, so he broke with Manichaeanism. St. Augustinus made it clear his point about evil when he met Pelagius. Pelagius was an English monk, Puritan, Moralist, Stoicist, and Rationalist. He claimed that a man can want the good and do the good because a man was given free will and ability which can do the good originally. He said that God’s grace can help a man to do the good thing, so God’s grace did not need man’s salvation absolutely. St. Augustinus disputed Pelagius’ claim strongly. St. Augustinus explained that a man not loosed God’s Image and freewill itself but loosed an ability which can know God and make associate with God at his Anthropology. He explained an original human state that a man changed a being that cannot choose the evil because a man did not choose the good that God wants. St. Augustinus said that a man can save through the three step free notion. And it can be through full God’s grace and it is called a graceful teacher. He said that God’s grace and a spiritual freedom which a man should have can be one, and it can reach a free through grace. St. Augustinus came into with Neoplatonism. Neoplatonism expressed that the evil was a fundamental character in the middle of the outflow process, but St. Augustinus explained that whole creation is the good including physical world, not outflow notion. St. Augustinus regarded God as a being, but Neoplatonism considered God as a character over the being. St. Augustinus mentioned that the Trinity homogamy and the sameness, but Plotinus claimed that a soul was cleaned as separating from matter. Through Plotinus’ Neoplatonism, St. Augustinus was to know that God is over the time, space, and physical world as a spiritual being. From Plotinus’ spiritual Monism, he solved the evil problem that Manichaeanism did not solve. The evil is not a substance has a thing but the lack of a substance and the good. Through Neoplatonism, he settled a philosophical matter, but he did not solve his inner suffering and agony. St. Augustinus explained that the evil essence was a passive condition which the lack of the good presented as evil. Diagnosing the evil essence, he concerned more moral evil which has freewill than natural evil. He thought that a man had a criminal responsibility, which is freewill. St. Augustinus’ evil two turning points were divided by repentance. His repentance was accomplished through confession in A.D. 386. Before repentance, he got the picture about evil all his own. His understanding was that the evil was a reality against God. So, he understood that the evil was a reality not regarding from God. After repentance, St. Augustinus concerned the fall fact in the Bible accepting Neoplatonism’s evil concept and thought much of moral evil which freewill’s major reason than natural evil. Moral corruption is not the natural evil notion which the lack of being like Neoplatonism. St. Augustinus was affected by Neoplatonism. However Neoplatonism was used as the tool expressing the fact in the Bible. St. Augustinus’ idea contained Neoplatonism’s mode. He put the authority church’s teaching and the Bible’s truth. Understanding the whole evil meaning and becoming firm through Paul’s idea, he claimed that this world was created from nothing and came back nothing if God did not hang out continuously. It says that the evil is the lack from certain being. When it premises a certain being, the being is the existing good and the evil which has the lack. Therefore, the good goes with the evil simultaneously, and the evil contains the good, too. Deciding a criterion between the good and the evil, St. Augustinus’ said that it was about God’s authority.
ABSTRACT A Study on the Evil of St. Augustinus Lee, Hyoung Woo Dept. of Graduate School Theology Hyup Sung University Supervised by Professor Lee, Choong Bum St. Augustinus is honored as the greatest Father through Christian fathers. He was born between a pagan father and a fervent believer mother at the Numidia Thagaste Nov. 13. A.D. 354. He was educated at Thagaste for the first time. He had lived and was affected lots of sensuous temptation at the Carthage until 371 to 384, and then he grew away from Monica’s religion, Christianity. Reading Cicero’s Hortensius, he tried to find the truth beginning a philosophical awareness about the truth. St. Augustinus joined Manichaeanism thinking that it solved self-problem better than the Bible. He had a problem about evil’s foundation, thought the solution, and did not understand the spiritual reality. When he met Manichaeanism, it explained a reasonable description somehow. But as he talked with Faustus, Manichaean bishop, he disappointed not by listening expected answer, so he broke with Manichaeanism. St. Augustinus made it clear his point about evil when he met Pelagius. Pelagius was an English monk, Puritan, Moralist, Stoicist, and Rationalist. He claimed that a man can want the good and do the good because a man was given free will and ability which can do the good originally. He said that God’s grace can help a man to do the good thing, so God’s grace did not need man’s salvation absolutely. St. Augustinus disputed Pelagius’ claim strongly. St. Augustinus explained that a man not loosed God’s Image and freewill itself but loosed an ability which can know God and make associate with God at his Anthropology. He explained an original human state that a man changed a being that cannot choose the evil because a man did not choose the good that God wants. St. Augustinus said that a man can save through the three step free notion. And it can be through full God’s grace and it is called a graceful teacher. He said that God’s grace and a spiritual freedom which a man should have can be one, and it can reach a free through grace. St. Augustinus came into with Neoplatonism. Neoplatonism expressed that the evil was a fundamental character in the middle of the outflow process, but St. Augustinus explained that whole creation is the good including physical world, not outflow notion. St. Augustinus regarded God as a being, but Neoplatonism considered God as a character over the being. St. Augustinus mentioned that the Trinity homogamy and the sameness, but Plotinus claimed that a soul was cleaned as separating from matter. Through Plotinus’ Neoplatonism, St. Augustinus was to know that God is over the time, space, and physical world as a spiritual being. From Plotinus’ spiritual Monism, he solved the evil problem that Manichaeanism did not solve. The evil is not a substance has a thing but the lack of a substance and the good. Through Neoplatonism, he settled a philosophical matter, but he did not solve his inner suffering and agony. St. Augustinus explained that the evil essence was a passive condition which the lack of the good presented as evil. Diagnosing the evil essence, he concerned more moral evil which has freewill than natural evil. He thought that a man had a criminal responsibility, which is freewill. St. Augustinus’ evil two turning points were divided by repentance. His repentance was accomplished through confession in A.D. 386. Before repentance, he got the picture about evil all his own. His understanding was that the evil was a reality against God. So, he understood that the evil was a reality not regarding from God. After repentance, St. Augustinus concerned the fall fact in the Bible accepting Neoplatonism’s evil concept and thought much of moral evil which freewill’s major reason than natural evil. Moral corruption is not the natural evil notion which the lack of being like Neoplatonism. St. Augustinus was affected by Neoplatonism. However Neoplatonism was used as the tool expressing the fact in the Bible. St. Augustinus’ idea contained Neoplatonism’s mode. He put the authority church’s teaching and the Bible’s truth. Understanding the whole evil meaning and becoming firm through Paul’s idea, he claimed that this world was created from nothing and came back nothing if God did not hang out continuously. It says that the evil is the lack from certain being. When it premises a certain being, the being is the existing good and the evil which has the lack. Therefore, the good goes with the evil simultaneously, and the evil contains the good, too. Deciding a criterion between the good and the evil, St. Augustinus’ said that it was about God’s authority.
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