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The Evils of Theodicy. Four Perspectives - III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

J. Patout Burns
J. Patout Burns*
Affiliation:
Washington University in St. Louis
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Review Symposium
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Horizons , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Fall 1991 , pp. 300 - 303
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 1991

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References

1 Enchiridion, xxv, 100.Google Scholar

2 Robert O'Connell's magisterial study of Augustine's struggle with the twin questions of the origin of the human soul and the transmission of Adamic guilt provides a wonderful exposition of this form of defense. See The Origin of the Soul in Augustine's Later Works (New York: Fordham University Press, 1987).Google Scholar

3 See, e.g., the list of propositions which he presents in de gratia Christi xlvii, 52.

4 At the end of his first full discussion of the doctrine of gratuitous election, Augustine reflected on the inscrutability of the divine judgment (see de diuersis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum, I, ii, 22).