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The Church Fathers · 388–395
On Free Choice of the Will
De Libero Arbitrio
Augustine of Hippo · 354–430
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What it is
A dialogue on where evil comes from if God is good, answering that evil is not a substance but a turning of the will away from the greater good to a lesser one.
Why it lasted
The classic Christian answer to the problem of evil, and a book the Pelagians later quoted against its own author.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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