This paper focuses on the comparison between Augustine’s and Luther’s understanding of bondage will. As a philosopher will, Augustine establishes independence will in his earlier work. In debate with Julian Eclanum that comes from later period, emphasizes grace original sin. The salvation freedom humans rely Holy Spirit. Erasmus, Luther introduced conception necessity However, both thinkers hav...

This article examines the way Augustine draws on theological virtue of hope to address how people should live in times suffering. Of three virtues – faith, hope, and love is least explored theme contemporary Augustinian scholarship. develops a framework for Augustine’s model from his Enchiridion then applies it select Sermons Letters. Through this, we see that does not represent either an anest...

This essay poses a twofold question regarding the Augustine who influenced Niebuhr’s work: to which of many versions was Niebuhr drawn? What has happened this across reception thought? As first matter, I argue that helped resolve long-standing questions not by pessimistic realist, but rather distinctively analogical Augustine, mediated through work Polish Jesuit Erich Przywara, understands ther...

After discussing the so-called Ham myth in South Africa, my focus is on African church father Augustine (354–430). All texts from his immense oeuvre which he mentions biblical are reviewed chronological order. In Against Faustus, story of Noah and sons mainly explained as being Christological: figures a type unbelieving Jews who consented to murder Christ, but also because ‘the slave brothers’ ...