Dialectical Generation Between Evil And Sin

Evil is one of important problems in the Christian theology, which involved the origin&character&effect of Evil and how to deal with the relationship between Evil and Creation. Augustine realized the conflict. First, it discusses the presentation of the issue of Evil, mainly describes Augustine's personal experience and the evolution of the concept of Evil; Second, it elaborates Augustine's view of Evil: he opposed the claim of Good and Evil in Manichean dualism, and claimed that God is the only eternal existence, while others are all come from the Nothingness, all things have different location due to the existence of different grade in the order of Good, on the comparison to the perfection of God or above their things, which revealed the flaws that is Evil which is "the lack of Good". Third, the core of this thesis analyzes the dialectical generation among Evil, Free will and Sin: because Free will, Ontological Evil change to Existential Evil: Evil - Free will - Sin; because of incompetence of Free will in Sin, person continue to do evil: Sin - Free will - Evil. Finally, it elaborates the logical relation among Evil, Freedom and Grace, which mainly explains the theory of Grace and the transformed focus from the voluntary of the Will to the Grace in the theory of Free will, and how did Augustine deal with the tension between the Grace and Freedom, and intends to analyze the relationship between the elimination of Evil and the Grace of God in the existential meaning.