Augustine and the Trinity /
"Augustine of Hippo (354-430) strongly influenced western theology, but he has often been accused of over-emphasizing the unity of God to the detriment of the Trinity. In Augustine and the Trinity, Lewis Ayres offers a new treatment of this important figure, demonstrating how Augustine's w...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Origins
- Giving wings to Nicaea
- On being and not being a 'Platonist'
- Olivier Du Roy's thesis
- A bridge too far : Du Roy's method
- The tripotent Father, Son and Spirit
- De beata vita
- Augustine's engagements
- From Him, through Him and in Him
- Latin pro-Nicene theology
- An anti-Manichaean Trinitarianism I : de moribus ecclesiae catholicae
- An anti-Manichaean Trinitarianism II : epistula II
- Faith of our fathers : de fide et symbolo
- Augustine and Latin anti-Monarchianism
- Persona, natura, substantia
- 'Most fittingly called his word'
- Spiritus, deitas, communio
- Taking stock
- Part II. Ascent
- The unadorned Trinity
- Trinitas quae deus est
- The unadorned Trinity
- Towards understanding
- Excursus I : the dating of the de trinitate
- Per corporalia ... ad incorporalia
- Ascent and the liberal arts
- Changing attitudes to the artes
- Analogy in the confessiones
- A Christological epistemology
- Augustine finds his panzer
- Faith and contemplation
- Faith, desire and Christ
- Interlude : Augustine's panzer and the Latin tradition
- Correspondence and mystery : the example of Moses
- Faith and grace
- Excursus 2 : polemical targets in the de trinitate
- Part III. Into the mystery
- Recommending the source
- A second rule
- The meaning of sending
- Revealing and saving
- Augustine's novelty?
- Creator, creation and the angels
- 'You have made all things in Wisdom' (Ps. 103.24)
- Essence from essence
- The self-same, the identical
- The simplicity of God
- Predicating relation (Trin. 5. 3.48.9)
- Person and nature (Trin. 5. 8.99.10 and 7. 4.76.11)
- Wisdom from wisdom (Trin. 6. 1.17. 2.3)
- Appropriation (Trin. 7. 3.4)
- Showing and seeing
- Subsistentia personarum ('the existence of the persons')
- Father and Son : showing and seeing
- Loving and being
- The Spirit as agent of unity
- Acts 4.32
- The Spirit and the life of the divine three
- And 'from' the Son?
- Subsisting relations?
- Part IV. Memory, intellect and will
- 'But it's not fur eatin' ... '
- Introduction
- De civitate dei II
- De trinitate 8 : the exordium
- De trinitate 9. 1.15.8 : the paradox of self-knowing
- De trinitate 9. 6.912.18 : verbum interior
- Conclusion : the ghost at the banquet?
- ' ... It's just fur lookin' through'
- Setting up de trinitate 10 : se nosse
- se cogitare
- De trinitate 10. 10.1312.19 : memoria, intellegentia and voluntas
- Reprise : de trinitate 14
- A Ciceronian triad
- Conclusion
- Epilogue. Catching all three.