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Often appears with: word deed desire · the nature and attributes of God · strifes of words · sin, guilt, and repentance · scripture and its interpretation · scriptural interpretation · natural law and higher law · grace and charity · eternal law · equity, mercy, and pardon · aversion from end
Usually: argument (2) · crisis of belief (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1) · reverence (1)
“Accordingly Augustine includes two things in the definition of sin; one, pertaining to the substance of a human act... and the other... pertaining to the nature of evil... “contrary to the eternal law.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · insight
He evaluates the definition of sin as word, deed, or desire contrary to the eternal law, arguing it fits because sin is a bad human act measured by God’s eternal rule.
all, whether interior or exterior, as when a man, at the time that he is bound to go to church, does not think of going or not going to church. If, however, in the sin of omission, we consider also the causes, or occasions of the omission, then the sin of omission must of necessity include some act. For there is no sin of omission, unless we omit what we can do or not do: and that we turn aside so as not to do what …
He continues contrasting apostolic simplicity with scholastic overdefinition of grace, charity, sin, and church practices, claiming scripture would not support the later “strifes of words.”
of the head. For who can conceive these things, unless he has spent at least six and thirty years in the philosophical and supercelestial whims of Aristotle and the Schoolmen? In like manner, the apostles press to us grace; but which of them distinguishes between free grace and grace that makes a man acceptable? They exhort us to good works, and yet determine not what is the work working, and what a resting in the w…