作者简介：石敏敏，浙江工商大学马克思主义学院教授。
Author: SHI Minmin, Professor, School of Marxism, Zhejiang Gongshang University.
Email: shiminmin7633@163.com
Abstract: Scholars have focused more on Augustine’s theology of free will, grace, God, original sin, soul and political theology but less on his thought on creation or twofold-creation. This essay will focus on Augustine’s expositions of four biblical verses in Genesis 1 and 2, arguing Augustine, like his contemporary Greek fathers, believed that God’s creation of heaven, angel and human beings is twofold. In Augustine’s view, the twofold-creation of heaven means a transformation from the formless/eternal heaven to the heaven and earth with visible forms. By distinguishing dies anus and dies primus, Augustine inferred the creation of angel as “informis materia ” on the first day and then was transformed as manifested beings - the “light”. Augustine explained the conflicts between Gen. 1:26-27 and 2:7 through twofold-creation theory, arguing that human beings was firstly created as “potentialiter atque causaliter ” and then as “hominem ” with gender identity. The author thinks that Augustine’s thought on twofold-creation is unique and of great value. It is related to his other theological treatises such as his soteriology.
Keywords: Augustine, Twofold-Creation, angels, man, Genesis
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