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Augustine: Confessions - Coggle Diagram
Augustine: Confessions
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Themes
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Sin and lust
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While not denying the importance of divine grace, Pelagius and his followers insisted that the human being was by nature free and able not to sin (possibilitas). Against this view, Augustine vigorously defended his doctrine of the human being’s radical dependence on grace, a conviction already voiced in the Confessiones but refined and hardened during the controversy
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Characters
Ambrose
converts Augustine to Christianity, Augustine presents a fatherly relationship, but very little evidence to suggest intimacy between the two
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Faustus
disappointing, especially contrasted to pleasing Ambrose at the end of the book
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