... God was sinful. Thus, present life was full of sinful passions like sexual passion. Augustine's view of man's fallen nature and present life remained basic to medieval theology. For instance, Thomas Aquinas ( 1225-1274) , author of Suma theological, stated that: "We commit a sinful act by turning to a temporal attraction without being duly directed to our last end (God)."(4) Why man fell from ... played by the body and physical life. At this point, Augustine started to create controversy for theologians of medieval universities. For instance, Thomas Aquinas, who chose Aristotle as his p...

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