Augustine
‘Conscience is God’s love poured into humans, when God speaks to the individual.’
Joseph Butler
‘a faculty… supreme over all other… its own authority.’
Fletcher
‘Conscience is merely a word for our attempts to make decisions creatively, constructively and fittingly.’
Augustine - wicked soul
‘There is no soul, however wicked, in whose conscience God does not speak.’
Innate voice of God
Augustine and Schleirmacher
God-given faculty of reason
Aquinas
Reflective, intuitive and autonomous (God -given)
Butler