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I've looked closely at St. Augustine's teaching on the eternal suffering of infants who die without baptism, and agree wholeheartedly with Brownson that he has gotten a bad rep on that score, and find this an accurate summary of A's view:Its eternal separation from God as the chief good, as we have already said, involved in the mind of St. Augustine the necessity of suffering.
Nothing more, nothing less. There is no radical change in doctrine between St. Augustine and St. Thomas. Both agree that such an infant is separated from God, and endures no other punishment. That St. Augustine calls such a separation "suffering," and St. Thomas doesn't describe it as suffering, doesn't change the fact that the they regard the state of these infants the same: Augustine does not impute to the infant any "suffering" beyond the separation, which St. Thomas also acknowledges. I'll add the quote to the thread I started to look at this aspect of St. Augustine's teaching.Thanks for posting.
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Rom. 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins"
Apoc 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.
Topic: "St. Augustine and Calvinism" (Catholic Church on Hell ) Orestes Brownson (Read 7471 times)