The human condition in Hilary of Poitiers the will and original sin between Origen and Augustine 1st Edition by Isabella Christin ISBN 0198806647 978-0198806646

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ISBN 10: 0198806647 

ISBN 13: 978-0198806646

Author:  Isabella Christin 

 While he is more commonly known for his Trinitiarian works and theology, this study assesses mid-fourth-century bishop Hilary of Poitiers’ view of the human condition. Isabella Image shows that the Commentary on Psalm 118 is more closely related to Origen’s than previously thought. Image explains how his articulations of sin, body and soul, the Fall and the will all parallel or echo Origen’s views in this work, but not necessarily in his Matthew Commentary. Hilary has a doctrine of original sin (‘sins of our origin’, peccata originis), which differs from the individual personal sins and for which we are individually accountable. He also articulates a fallen will which is in thrall to disobedience and needs God’s help, something God always gives as long as we show the initiative. Hilary’s idea of the fallen will may have developed in tangent with Origen’s thought, which uses Stoic ideas on the process of human action in order to articulate the constraints on purely rational responses. Hilary in turn influences Augustine, who writes against the Pelagian bishop Julian of Eclanum citing Hilary as an example of an earlier writer with original sin. Since Hilary is known to have used Origen’s work, and Augustine is known to have used Hilary’s, Hilary appears to be one of the stepping-stones between these two great giants of the early church as the doctrines of original sin and the fallen will developed.
The Human Condition in Hilary of Poitiers not only identifies Hilary’s anthropological thought, but also places it in the current of theological development of the fourth century. It considers reception of Origen in the mid-fourth century, before the criticisms of Epiphanius and the debates in the Egyptian monastic communities. This work also contributes to understanding of the tradition from which Augustine received his doctrine of original sin.

Table of contents: 

1: Introduction  
Hilary of Poitiers: Life and Afterlife  
Hilary’s Context: Between Origen and Augustine  
Modern Scholarship on Hilary’s Theological Anthropology  
Methodology: Comparing Hilary’s Commentaries  
Research Questions  

2: Hilary’s Commentary on Psalm 118  
Introduction  
Jerome on Hilary’s Psalm Commentaries  
Textual Witnesses to Origen on Psalm 118  
Case Study: Ps. 118.17-24 (strophe ‘gimel’)  
Analysis: Hilary’s Translation Technique  
Adaptation of Theology  
Conclusion  

3: Body and Soul  
Introduction  
Literature Review  
Body and Soul in the Psalms Commentaries  
Body and Soul in Commentary on Matthew  
Hilary’s Influences  
Discussion  

4: The Human as Imago Dei  
Introduction  
Current Scholarship  
Imago as Expression of our Creation and Progression  
Hilary Adopting Origen? Imago Theology in the Psalms Commentaries  
Hilary Rejecting Origen? The Lost Image  
Conclusion  

5: The Fall  
Introduction  
The Fall Narrative  
First Cause of the Fall  
Some Effects of the Fall  
Conclusion  

6: Constraint (1): Voluntas  
Introduction  
Hilary’s Articulations of the Will  
Voluntas before Augustine  
Discussion  
Conclusion  

7: Constraint (2): Thought and Passions  
Introduction  
Passions and Emotions  
Hilary and Stoic Ideas of Mental Processes  
Cogitationes  
A Difference from Stoic Thought: apatheia  
Discussion  

8: Original Sin  
Introduction  
The Sinful State: Creation or Fall?  
The ‘Sins of our Origin’  
Transmission by Birth  
Baptism  
Conclusion  

9: Hilary Between Origen and Augustine  
Introduction  
Hilary’s Anthropology  
Hilary’s Usage of Origen  
Augustine’s Usage of Hilary  
Closing Remarks  

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