Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther on original sin and justification of the sinner / / Jairzinho Lopes Pereira.

• Superior document: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS) ; v.15
• Author: Lopes Pereira, Jairzinho.
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (507 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the development of Augustine's theology of Original Sin and Justification. Here the emphasis is placed on the defining moments of this development process. These moments are the second half of 390s (period during which the Church Father wrote two of his key-works: De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum (396/397) and Confessiones (397-400)) and the last twelve years of his literary career, with emphasis on the works he produced in the heat of the long and bitter confrontation with Julian of Aeclanum. In the second part Pereira dea

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Part I: Original Sin and the development of Saint Augustine's theology; Body; Foreword by Risto Saarinen; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Introduction; 1. Why Augustine and Luther? Why were Original Sin and justification chosen as the topics of this study?; 2. Tasks, sources and methodological considerations; 3. The outline of the study; 4. Previous Research and the new contributions of this study; 1. Augustine''s thought regarding Original Sin: concept and nature; 1.1 Preliminary remarks

1.2 How does one explain the presence of sin in the creation of a good God? A key-concept: order (ordo)1.3 Original Sin, the primitive inordinatio amoris: three key-concepts: order (ordo), love (amor) and will (voluntas); 1.4 On the gravity of Original Sin; 1.5 Conclusions; 2. Inherited sin and its role in the Augustinian doctrine of salvation; 2.1 Early writings (previous to 396); 2.1.1 The first signs of the break with the early paradigm; 2.2 Original Sin and the shaping of the Augustinian soteriological framework. The place of Ad Simplicianum

2.3 The emerging soteriology of Ad Simplicianum and the patristic tradition2.4 Conclusions; 3. Original Sin and Augustine''s doctrine of salvation in the confrontation with Julian of Aeclanum (418-430); 3.1 Confronting Julian: Preliminary remarks; 3.2 Letter 194 to Sixtus; 3.3 Natura vitiata and massa damnata: Original Sin and Augustinian soteriology; 3.3.1 Necessitas peccandi: theological background; 3.3.2 Natura vitiata and free will. The loss of libertas; 3.3.3 The crucial role of Romans 7:14-25; 3.4 Grave iugum super filios Adam: human misery as proof of Original Sin

3.5 The case of suffering of infants3.6 Conclusions; 4. Ante omne meritum est gratia: Grace, faith and merit in the Augustinian doctrine of justification (it is all about grace); 4.1 Reconciliation in Christ: Original Sin and the theological background of the Augustinian doctrine of justification; 4.2 Spiritum sanctum, qui datus nobis est: On the justifying grace in De Spiritu et littera; 4.3 Does Augustine teach justification by faith?; 4.4 Justification, a God-driven process. A key word: grace; 4.5 Conclusions

Part II: Understanding the rising of a Reformer. YoungLuther's use and reading of Augustine1. Augustine in the context of Luther''s call for reformation of the doctrine of the Church; 1.1 The root of the problem: facientibus quod in se est Deus non denegat gratiam; 1.2 A decisive work: Lectures on Romans (1515-1516). Augustine and Luther''s theological reforming programme in context; 1.3 With Augustine; 1.4 ... for a cause: a Church free of the remnants of Pelagianism

2. Original Sin and justification in Luther''s early Pauline commentaries. Interpretation and use of Augustine''s anti-Pelagian theology