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Saint Augustine
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Saint Augustine
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a conflict between the grace of god and the human being's free choice of the will
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Gören
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1988-
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Arif Gören
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Tia M
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Tia M Kolbaba
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chair
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Johnson
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James Turner
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internal member
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Wasserman
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Emma J
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Emma J Wasserman
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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Saint Augustine’s understanding of the grace of God and human beings’ free choice of the will underwent significant changes. On the one hand, Augustine never ceased to defend the existence of free choice of the will for the sake of goodness, omnipotence, and justice of God. On the other hand, as soon as he converted to Christianity he accentuated the role of God’s grace over human beings’ good actions. His growing concern for divine omnipotence forced him to accentuate the role of God’s grace while lessening the role of human beings’ free choice of the will in their good works. Augustine’s final views on the grace of God and human beings’ free choice of the will are in serious tension. His concern with the omnipotence of God caused him to give no role to human beings. Human beings after the fall cannot freely will or do anything unless God bestows His grace to them. Yet, to hold human beings responsible for the existence of sin, free will must exist. Therefore, Augustine argued that the disobedience of Adam and Eve removed the capability of doing good for all humanity. With the fall, human beings produced their personal sin and became totally incapable of willing and doing good. The Grace of God, therefore, is only hope for salvation. Augustine’s final views on the grace of God and human beings’ free choice of the will put him in a position where he contradicts with God’s justice. Augustine argued that God has predestined all human beings either to salvation or to damnation. Hence, human beings are not capable of acting contrary to what God determined for them. Yet, Augustine strongly advocated that human beings are responsible for their actions. In other words, God holds a person responsible for things beyond his control.
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Religious Studies
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Saint Augustine (Fla.)
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Free will and determinism
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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M.A.
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by Arif Gören
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ETD graduate
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Arif
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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