The Beauty of Hell? Augustine's Aesthetic Theodicy and Its Critics  

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Hohyun, Sohn

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theology Today vol. 64 no. 1 (Apr. 2007), page 47-57.
Topik: Theology; Christianity; Good & Evil; Aesthetics; Anthropology; Theory
Fulltext: TT294764012007.pdf (1.26MB)

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St Augustine is one of the first theologians who approach the problem of evil from an aesthetic perspective. Even though Augustine is usually known as the champion of free will theodicy, his anthropological explanation of evil is logically dependent on his aesthetic theodicy. In beauty Augustine finds a fundamental logic of contrastive harmony, which integrates even the wound of human freedom into a poem of the universe. Heaven and hell together highlight God's providential care of the world. After examining Augustine's aesthetic theodicy of harmony, I argue that there can be no eternal hell even in the Augustinian universe. God's beautiful justice will not tolerate the eternal frustration of hell.

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