{"id":4473,"date":"2016-10-02T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:26:06","slug":"acquiring-the-mind-of-christ-20161002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=4473","title":{"rendered":"Acquiring the Mind of Christ — 20161002"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"christ_icon\"<\/a>I ended the last issue of this article by sharing the fact that St. Augustine, the originator of the idea of Original Sin, greatly influenced Anselm. By the way I would hasten to remind my readers that the idea of Original Sin is not found in the Bible and was the conclusion of St. Augustine as he thought about the story of Adam and Eve and their rejection from the Garden of Eden. In truth, the Eastern Church never really embraced that idea.<\/p>\n

After Anselm\u2019s and subsequently Peter Abelard\u2019s \u201crevolution\u201d in Atonement theology, most of the West became further estranged from the Eastern Church\u2019s experience. Thus arose a host of new supposed \u201cdevelopments\u201d in theology from Catholic and Protestant scholars: Vicarious Atonement, which placates God\u2019s anger (talk about making God in man\u2019s image<\/em>); Don Scotus\u2019 \u201cmerits\u201d for the predestined; and indulgences, which apparently can \u201cpay\u201d the Church the fee for the offenders\u2019 sins (this one caused Luther to mount his great PROTEST<\/em>). <\/em><\/p>\n

Four hundred years after Anselm, the Roman Catholic Council of Trent, which was largely called in reaction to the Protestant Reformation, was compelled to define the exact nature of Atonement in agreement with Anselm\u2019s new understanding. This Council established that at the core of Anselmian Atonement was St. Augustine\u2019s doctrine of Original Sin.<\/p>\n

The Augustinian doctrine of Original Sin, which entails all of Adam\u2019s posterity inheriting guilt, sets certain parameters for the Anselmian doctrine that do not exist in the Eastern Church\u2019s biblical-patristic mindset. Due to a faulty translation of Romans 5:12 in St. Jerome\u2019s Vulgate (the Latin translation of the Bible), St. Augustine formulates the doctrine that not only do all men inherit mortality and the inclination to sin, but they are guilty and legally liable before God for Adam\u2019s sin. This doctrine profoundly affects the perspective of how <\/em>one is saved and from what <\/em>he is saved.<\/p>\n

I wonder whether any of my readers ever asked themselves about what they needed to be saved from. I suspect that since our Church has been so influenced by the Roman Catholic Church, which looks to Anselm and Augustine, many have never even dared to ask the question: How and from What has Christ saved me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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