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This 8 page paper provides an overview of some essential elements
of the perspectives of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure as they
relate to the philosophy of religion. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
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Hence, let me begin. A. Augustine, your dependence upon Plato causes you to be a monist because for you as for Plato reality is immutability. Therefore, God is
triune but is also one and thus monism starts there. Plato argues that the "all natural phenomena are merely shadows of the eternal
forms or ideas" and that most people live their lives without understanding that there is more to knowledge than what can be sensed or immediately perceived (Gaarder 70). This
view leads to Platos central view of God, which is not based in the standard religious perspectives of his day, but instead on a monism based on the perception of
self in relation to the natural world and the importance of understanding the unexplainable. In his work The Trinity, Augustine defines what he perceives as Gods triune nature, but relies
heavily on Platos view that God can exist in a triune form without rejecting the notion of monism. Instead, Augustine embraced the notion that Plato maintains in regards to
the segmentation of mans central components (the physical, the perceptual), and determined the link between the distinctions made by Plato and the arguments that support monism. B. What
else can be expected but that creatures (angelic, human, and the rest) are also one as emanating from God. Dont say "creating" since from Plotinus you borrowed the concept
of emanation inasmuch as God must necessarily produce the existents emanating from Him. It has been argued that the repentant tone of Augustines Confessions provides a central view
on Christian ethics and distinguishing good from evil (Werpehowski 175). Further, it has been asserted that the evaluation of the Biblical perspectives on Gods role and good and evil
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