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Revision - Augustine on Human Nature

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class

Date

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

10.

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

Dawkins

Pinker

Hitchens

Niebuhr

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Revision - Augustine on Human Nature

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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