Augustine on the Will

A Theological Account

Han-Luen Kantzer Komline (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

488 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776458-9 (ISBN)

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While Augustine's understanding of will is constantly invoked in secondary literature, it rarely receives analysis in its own right. In this book, Han-luen Kantzer Komline provides such an analysis, demonstrating that Augustine's view is "theologically differentiated," comprising four distinct types of human will, which correspond to four different theological scenarios.

This book provides a framework for Augustine's understanding of will, an aspect of his thought that has proven to be both essential and inscrutable. On the one hand, the Augustinian will is everywhere. It comes up constantly both in Augustine's thought and in the massive literature engaging it. The will is impossible to avoid in almost any treatment of any aspect of his thinking, whether theological, philosophical, psychological, or political, because it is at the heart of his understanding of the human person and therefore vital to his understanding of such diverse topics as grace, freedom, the image of God, and moral responsibility. On the other hand, Augustine's understanding of the will resists direct examination. With the exception of an early treatise on free choice, Augustine never devoted a work to exploring the will in a programmatic way. Likewise, while the Augustinian will is constantly invoked in secondary literature, it rarely receives analysis in its own right.

Han-luen Kantzer Komline demonstrates that Augustine's view is "theologically differentiated," comprising four distinct types of human will, which correspond to four different theological scenarios. Augustine's innovation consists in distinguishing these types with a detail and clarity unprecedented by any thinker before him. This account of the Augustinian will gives a comprehensive picture of the development and mature shape of Augustine's thinking on this vital yet perennially puzzling topic.

Han-luen Kantzer Komline is Marvin and Jerene DeWitt Professor of Theology and Church History at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Conversions of the Will
1. The Created Will: The Hinge of the Soul
2. The Fallen Will: A Link in Sin's Chain
3. What Is in Our Power
4. God's Gardening
5. The Redeemed Will: A Root of Love
6. Christ and the Will: Agony in the Garden
7. The Holy Spirit and the Will: Intervention and Analogy
8. The Eschatological Will: Full Freedom at Last
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index to Works of Augustine Scripture Index
Subject and Name Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 244 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-776458-4 / 0197764584
ISBN-13	978-0-19-776458-9 / 9780197764589
Zustand	Neuware