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While Augustine's understanding of will is constantly invoked in secondary literature, it rarely receives analysis in its own right. In this book, Han-luen Kantzer Komline provides such an analysis, demonstrating that Augustine's view is "theologically differentiated," comprising four distinct types of human will, which correspond to four different theological scenarios.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Conversions of the Will
- 1. The Created Will: The Hinge of the Soul
- 2. The Fallen Will: A Link in Sin's Chain
- 3. What Is in Our Power
- 4. God's Gardening
- 5. The Redeemed Will: A Root of Love
- 6. Christ and the Will: Agony in the Garden
- 7. The Holy Spirit and the Will: Intervention and Analogy
- 8. The Eschatological Will: Full Freedom at Last
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index to Works of Augustine Scripture Index
- Subject and Name Index
About the author
Han-luen Kantzer Komline is Marvin and Jerene DeWitt Professor of Theology and Church History at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan.
Summary
While Augustine's understanding of will is constantly invoked in secondary literature, it rarely receives analysis in its own right. In this book, Han-luen Kantzer Komline provides such an analysis, demonstrating that Augustine's view is "theologically differentiated," comprising four distinct types of human will, which correspond to four different theological scenarios.
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Kantzer Komline's theologically differentiated approach enhances our understanding of Augustine on the will...Kantzer Komline shows that a theologically differentiated account of the will is necessary to account for Augustine's anti-Pelagianism, his engagement with scripture, his theological development, his distinctly Christian, trinitarian approach to willing, and his reluctance to offer philosophically universal definitions of the will.
