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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ayres, Lewis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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.