Saint Augustine & the Fall of the Soul: Beyond O'Connell ...
Rombs, Ronnie J.![Saint Augustine & the Fall of the Soul: Beyond O'Connell & His Critics](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/229/2295226/CHSBZCOP032295226.jpg)
Augustine's understanding of the origin of the soul and the nature of its fall looms as one of the most important and controversial questions among Augustinian scholars since Robert J. O'Connell first began publishing on the topic. O'Connell argued that Augustine embraced Plotinus's doctrine that the soul existed before the body and only fell into bodily life as the result of sin. Such a position, however, is fundamentally incompatible with Ch...