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Published on Apr 13, 2016

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AUGUSTINE

  • Aug studied the neo-platonist
  • The one sustaining force of the true good
  • All good is drawn toward the one and the soul's moral
  • The neo-platonists freed Aug from manichaeenn materialism
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AUGUSTINE

  • Aug contributed a major philosophical writting
  • Augstine made the confessions
  • The confessions reflect the middle age on events if his youth
  • Often viewed as a prayer
  • Accusation of oneself and praise for god
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CONFESSION

  • The work is addressed to god
  • Stating evil resides in human will
  • No humanefforts can undo the consequence of this reality
  • Aug's thought is divine between tensions of the fallen world
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CITY OF GOD

  • Rome was known as the Eternal City
  • The romans thought roman would never fall
  • Aug breaks down thedoctrine of the two cities
  • An earthly humanized city
  • The heavenly Godly city
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DE GENSI

  • creationists suggest christians hold on to creations of the gospel
  • Aug's suggests that other lessons should be learned
  • literal and figurative and the spiritual in the Old Testament
  • All in desire to present a more literal understanding of Genesis
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DE GENSI

  • Commitment to a ruling scientific paradigm can later prove embarrassing the Gospel
  • Do not be lazy and ignorant in defending the literal reading of Genesis
  • Do not be weak and faint away in the face of secular science
  • We should recognize a distinction between operational science and theoretical science,.
  • http://creation.com/lessons-from-augustine
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THOMAS AQUINAS

  • Aquinas believed in Reason and revelation
  • It can be argued that philosophy can reveal without revelation
  • But there must be revealed knowledge as well
  • The ends of God surpass reason and humans must know what they are
  • Also what can be know to reason can only be know to few
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THOMAS AQUINAS

  • Aquinas also preaches about unlimited reality
  • Aquinas viewed human reason as structured as a pyramid
  • Ethics and politics are at the base of the Aquinas' philosophy
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1ST QUESTION OF SUMMA

  • Scripture is not apart of philosphy
  • Humans goal to live a life with God
  • If God is the goal humans then need knowledge
  • Reason and philosophy have given us alot about God
  • Not eveyone is socrates or plato
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10.

THEOLOGY AS SCIENCE

  • Philosophy and theology may overlap
  • They are distinct in terms of anlyzation
  • Methodology just like biologist and chemist study organic life
  • Unique in that both are theoretical and practical quest for turth
  • Superior theoretical based off source and end
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INVESTIGATION OF GOD

  • Three divisions of treatment if God
  • The divine essence the distinction of 3 persons in one God
  • The creatures as they proceed God
  • Is God self evident? A question of aquinas
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AQUINAS

  • One knows something self-evidently when the predicate is included
  • Essence of the subject man is animal
  • We do not know God's essence
  • So we must infer God's existence from the effects of his nature
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THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

  • Argument from motion aquinas understands to be paradigm
  • Change being form potential to actual
  • Every move should be started with an actual to begin with
  • A chain of moves should Not ne infinitely long
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3 OBJECTIONS

  • Knowledge of God is innate
  • The concept includes existnces
  • God is truth and no one can dny the truth
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