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2. What did Augustine believe about human nature?
Remember: Three things you learnt about Augustine in year 12

3. Recap: What does Augustine believe about human nature?

4. Recap: What does Augustine believe about human nature?
TASK: complete the following questions in your notes to help recap Augustine’s beliefs about human nature:
When humans were created by God, what was their nature like?
How come the Fall occurred?
What happened as a result of the Fall? What does each person now have? Why?
How does this impact each person?
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5. Recap: What does Augustine believe about human nature?
TASK: complete the following questions in your notes to help recap Augustine’s beliefs about human nature:
Blameless, without fault. Had free will.
Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Adam and Eve were sent away from the Garden of Eden and were now separate from God. They had gained Original Sin, which is present in all humans as they are seminally present in Adam.
Each person is flawed and born with sin. They have an inclination to do evil.

6. Free will as part of human nature.
Key Terms:
Inclination or innate tendency of human beings to commit sin. Concupiscence was not sin in itself, but a deprivation of good or a wounding of the ability to choose good and resist evil.
Concupiscence
Humanity as a ‘lump of sin’. We are incapable of achieving salvation by ourselves due to our sinful nature.
Massa Peccati
Liberium abitrium
Free will as part of human nature.

7. What did Augustine believe about human nature?
TASK: whilst you are listening to the explanation of Augustine’s beliefs about human nature, create a drawing or diagram that demonstrates his beliefs.
CHALLENGE: can you explain your drawing to your partner?

8. Predictions! How do you think human nature links to salvation and predestination?

9. How does Augustine link human nature to salvation and predestination?
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10. How does Augustine link human nature to salvation and predestination?
Foreknowledge: God merely chose those human beings who he knew would freely believe in him.
Foreknowledge is not the same as compelling someone.
Adam and Eve rebelled due to concupiscence
We have Original sin and cannot abstain from committing sin on our own.

11. How does Augustine link human nature to salvation and predestination?
This inability to abstain from sin is our second nature.
We have lost our moral liberty/freedom.
God’s inscrutable free choice, not ours. A such, we are judged in readiness for the afterlife not on our merit but on His grace (gratia).
Elect.

12. How does Augustine link human nature to salvation and predestination?
Irresistible grace.
Go to Hell
God’s just nature – through damnation and God’s mercy – through salvation.
We were free only to sin so any pure behaviour is evidence of God’s grace.
God elects some to be saved and some to be damned.

13. How does Augustine link human nature to salvation and predestination?
God’s foreknowledge not his choices.
We are still sinners, deserving of being damned.

14. How does Augustine link human nature to salvation and predestination?
TASK: return to your drawing of Augustine’s beliefs and add in Augustine’s beliefs about predestination and salvation.
CHALLENGE: can you explain your drawing to your partner?

15. Recap: How does Augustine link human nature to salvation and predestination?
TASK: return to your drawing of Augustine’s beliefs and explain your drawing to your partner.
CHALLENGE: using your drawing as guidance, write a detailed paragraph of Augustine’s argument for human nature and how it links to predestination.

16. What is grace?
TASK: What do you think is meant by God’s grace?

17. How does grace link to predestination?
Read the excerpts from Christian Theology: An Introduction by A. E. McGrath.
Answer the questions using the specification as guidance.
CHALLENGE: what does Calvin say about predestination? How does this differ from Augustine?

18. What quotes can be used to support Augustine’s predestination?
TASK: analyse the quotes and write down their meanings.
EXTENSION: take one of the quotes and create a drawing in your notes to help you remember the quote.

19. To what extent do we agree or disagree with Augustine’s ideas?
Discuss …
To what extent do we agree or disagree with Augustine’s ideas?