믿음의 시작에 관한 어거스틴의 은총론

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This is a study of Augustine`s view of grace, especially with regard to the beginning of faith (initium fidei). Augustine had an understanding of God`s grace for faith, before becoming bishop, which he rejected later as wrong. His previous belief was that the faith and the will to believe are results of human agency, not God`s gift. According to his "Retractationes" and "De praedestinatione sanctorum (7)" he had corrected the incorrect view of grace, namely in his "De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum (Ⅰ 2)." Here he asserts that the will and the choice of having faith is entirely the work of God`s grace. The initium fidei also is of grace. The beginning of faith is not within human capacity. Had Augustine abandoned free will in favor of the teaching of grace? Does grace abolish free will? No! Faith and the will to believe are the work of grace. How do faith and free will relate to each other? For Augustine, the will is the place in which grace works. God has an influence on the will and causes free will to believe. Augustine thinks that the participation of the will in the beginning of faith is passive.