The Human Condition Before the Fall: Man as the Object of God’s Paternal and Providential Care
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https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2023.023Keywords
Original justice, Providence, Physical evil, Scientific vision, AquinasAbstract
This paper examines some theological reinterpretations of the dogma on the fall and the original condition of man before sin and formulates a proposal that, in accordance with St. Thomas Aquinas’ view, sees in man’s originally holy relationship (original holiness) with God the ‘context’ for the exercise of God’s providential and paternal care for man, which would have protected him from natural evils. It is then shown that the ‘physical-bodily normality’ of the progenitors in such a relational context accords well with both the current scientific understanding of the world and the fundamental theological reasons of dogma.
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