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THE ELEVATION ANDFALL OF MAN
Theology 101
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Meaning of Elevation and
Fall: supernatural order
PRINCIPLE ACTION END
Nature Know and Love Human
PerfectionGrace
participati
on in
divine life
Faith and
CharityDivine Life in
Man
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THE STATE OF ORIGINALJUSTICE
Sanctifying Grace Participation in divine life
Preternatural Gifts Integrity harmony of reason and will, Godand man.
Infusedknowledge
Immortalityable not to die
Impassibilityable not to suffer
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FALL
Sin a rejection of God and the refusalto accept his love. Shown indisregard for his commandments
- Aversio a Deo (turning away fromGod)
- Conversio ad creaturas (turning tocreatures)
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Fall of the Angels
free and irrevocable choice
rejected God and his Kingdom
They try to associate human beingswith their revolt against God
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First human sin
When tempted by the devil, the firstman and woman allowed trust intheir Creator to die in their
hearts. Disobeyed: wished to become like
God but without God and not inaccordance with God (Genesis 3:5).
lost for themselves and for all theirdescendants the original holiness.
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Original Sin: our state
Adam = man, mankind, earth, ground
The whole human race is in Adam "asone body of one man as the whole treeis in the seed.
Original sin, in which all human beingsare born, is the state ofdeprivation oforiginal holiness andjustice.
It is a sin contracted by us notcommitted; it is a state of birth andnot a personal act.
Transmitted by propagation (humanreproduction, heredity)
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STATE OF ORIGINAL SINFallen Nature / Wounded Nature
Loss of Sanctifying Grace
Loss of Preternatural GiftsIntegrity ConcupiscenceInfused knowledge IgnoranceImmortality DeathImpassibility Suffering
Baptism erases original sin and turns a manback towards God, but the consequences fornature persist in man spiritual battle:
sacraments, prayer, ascetical struggle.
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Different views of original sin
and human naturePelagius
OS Adam gave bad example.
Nature- Man is inherently good.Luther
OS Adam radically corrupted our
nature and destroyed his freedom.Nature - Man is inherently bad.
"Pecca fortiter, sed crede fortius"
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THE PROTO-EVANGELIUM(first good news)
3:14 And theLORD God saidunto the serpent,
And I will putenmity between
thee (serpent)and the woman,
and between thyseed and her
seed; it shall bruise thy
head, and thoushalt bruise hisheel.
Serpent The
Woman
Eve/Mary
Your Seed Her Seed(he, she, it)
Christ,Mary,Church
Bruise his
heel
Bruise your
head
Victory over
evil
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Protoevangelium
Compendium: Evil would be conqueredand that man would be lifted upfromhis fall.
first proclamation of the Messiah and
Redeemer
The fall would be called a happy faultbecause it gained for usso great aRedeemer (Liturgy of the Easter
Vigil). From Adam, mere fallen man, as head
of mankind, to Jesus, a New Adam,who is God himself, as new head of
mankind.
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The End
