Revision - Augustine on Human Nature

St. Augustine believed that God who was entirely good and all-powerful had created evil as a dual force to goodness. 

• True
• False

St. Augustine believed that the proof that God created humans as rational beings was:

• That they were capable of using their capabilities to the maximum to achieve virtue
• They had freedom of choice
• They were capable of understanding that knowledge did not exist

St. Augustine thought that since man is rational, we didn’t necessarily need God since we would be able to choose good over evil easily. 

• True
• False

What is the title of Augustine's autobiography?

• City of God

• The Confessions

• The Trinity

• Enchiridion

True or False? Pre-lapsarian Adam and Eve were in a state of caritas and cupiditas.

• True

• False

Who did Augustine argue with regarding the status of original sin?

• Pelagius

• Boethius

• Pope Gregory I

• Pseudo-Dionysius

How are humanity brought back to God according to Augustine?

• Through Jesus' death on the cross

• Through God's grace

• Through achieving the summum bonum

• Through faith in Jesus

What is meant by the term 'akrasia'?

• Heavenly society

• Humanities weakness of will

• Uncontrollable desires

• The highest good

What is meant by the term 'concordia'

• Uncontrollable desire

• Before the Fall

• Human friendship

• After the Fall

Which scholar argues that the humanitarian principle should replace the doctrine of original sin?

• Dawkins

• Pinker

• Hitchens

• Niebuhr