THEME 3B- AUGUSTINE TYPE THEODICY

• theodicy definition 


  argument that attempts to resolve the problem of evil
• what’s the overview of augustine’s theodicy

  soul - deciding
• according to augustine, what is evil a consequence of…


  sin, it didn’t exist before the sin of angels and humans
• augustine’s second point, evil as a 


  privation- a absence of something (absence of good). it was only caused from when humans and angels ‘turned away’ from god
• orthodox view of reason why evil exists 


  we all inherit original sin as we defended from adam (who sinned in the FALL (GENESIS 3) of man)
• why is evil a ‘Felix Culpa‘ (happy mistake)?

  without the fall of adam and eve, god wouldn’t have ever sent jesus into the world to save it from sin
• why is the augustinian theodicy a ’soul-deciding’ theodicy?

  those who freely CHOOSE to accept jesus would be redeemed and reunited with god. it’s up to the free-will agent to DECIDE. it’s a chance for humans to seek REDEMPTION
• why is augustine referred to as the ‘augustine of hippo’


  he rebelled in his teenage years and rejected christianity, slept with many women (‘pleasures of flesh’) he then renounced his beliefs COMPLETELY and became baptised, becoming the bishop of HIPPO in north africa, and being in complete defence of christianity
• why does evolutionary theory undermine augustine’s theodicy


  it is biologically impossible for humans to decend from a single pair and according to science- is an error.