THE CREATION AND FALL OF ANGELS IN AUGUSTINE’S INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS 1
Keywords:
Angels, Creation, God, Augustine, Manicheans, Heaven, Light, Goodness, Darkness
Abstract
The origin of all beings, their efficient and final causse have been the baffling question spanning through all ages and this includes the origin of angels. One of those who proffered a solution to this question was the Manicheans, but Augustine disproved of the Manicheans’ cosmogony of two coeternal Principles being the efficient and final causes of created beings including the angels. This workl analyses Augustine’s works on the creation of angels and the fall of the evil angels in the light of his interpretation of Genesis 1.
