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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- ISSN
- 1872-5163
- eISSN
- 1569-7312
- DOI
- 10.1163/15697312-00801006
- Publisher site
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Abstract
This book offers a detailed analysis of Augustine’s writings during the years 386–391 ce . The author offers a justification for this study, which is to view Augustine’s early writing as preparation for the Pneumatology that one can find in mature expression in De Trinitate . By the end of the book we shall see that the material presented is valuable enough as to need no such justification. The author pursues a ‘both … and …’ approach to sources and influences. The early Augustine was as fully Nicene (and the implication is that this means ‘Nicene-Constantinopolitan’) as he was Neoplatonic, yet with the former trumping the latter where necessary. His conception of God the Father may have been after the style of the Plotinian Monad, but the Christian Heavenly Father is the One turned outwards . Soul is in no sense divine, although it might have taken some time during those early years for Augustine to become sure of this conclusion. Reason seemed a better candidate for divine status and in De ordine II there is a pretty close association of Reason and the Holy Spirit, who sends the former out through the disciplines into human minds. However,
Journal
Journal of Reformed Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2014