Limitele libertății umane în teologia patristică răsăriteană și apuseană: Sf. Chiril al Alexandriei și Fericitul Augustin
The Limits of Human Freedom in Eastern and Western Patristic Theology: St. Cyril of Alexandria and St. Augustine

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to explore the vision of freedom in the theological reflection of St. Cyril of Alexandria and Saint Augustine. For St. Cyril of Alexandria the development of the theme of human freedom takes place in the context of a Christological and pneumatologically discourse. Augustine's effort to clarify the problem of freedom has, in general terms, a double direction. First, he polemicizes with Manichaeism, in which he combats it by the idea of free will as the cause of evil. At this stage, his theological construction is orthodox, similar to that of the Eastern Fathers. The second stage, however, puts him in the opposite difficulty. He has to fight against the very idea of freedom.

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