THEO 24842 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lindisfarne Gospels, Common Grace, Manichaeism
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There are situations in which we are forced to sin. As a person grows in self-consciousness, a part of that growth becomes a complete self-centeredness. Enosh managed to avoid sin in genesis 21. Arrives in rome in about 400 ad. Says god gives us the ability to do something (posse) but we provide the will and the action. Augustine by 400 ad had gotten to a situation in which he says every desire is for evil unless there"s a particular movement by grace by the spirit that particularly allows us to do good. Says god has to give us both the ability and the will and then we perform the action (esse) and god makes us responsible for the action. Grace is fundamentally internal, a working of the spirit. Not theological, just living a christian life. Becomes a christian and feels that god is calling him to bring christianity to. And ireland is an illiterate and trifling society.
