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Can good be the cause of evil? Can the supreme good, God, be the cause of evil? In the paragraphs below, Thomas Aquinas examines these two facets of the problem of evil, concluding that God is the cause of the just penalty for sin (the ‘evil’ of death), but God is not the cause of […]
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Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) is often referred to as the “Father of Scholasticism” for his use of dialectics in his theological works, a method that would later become standard practice for scholastic writers. His ability to view issues from multiple perspectives and develop arguments reconciling seemingly contradictory presuppositions is on display in On the Fall
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Written in the early 5th century AD, The City of God is a cornerstone of Christian theology, presenting human history as a spiritual war between the Earthly City (the fallen City of Man) and the City of God. The Earthly City consists of those who devote themselves to the pleasures and concerns of the temporal
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A central purpose of Against Heresies was to refute the heretical teachings of Gnosticism, which flourished during the early church period. Because many Gnostics held that spiritual knowledge was to be arrived at through interior means, and because many also claimed to have access to ‘secret knowledge’ about the nature of the universe, Gnostic beliefs
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