The incomprehensibility of God: Augustine as a negative theologian
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Leuven [u.a.]
Peeters
2011
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| Schriftenreihe: | Late antique history and religion
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| Umfang: | XIII, 262 S. |
| ISBN: | 9789042924734 |
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| adam_text | TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Preface
.......................................................................................................
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Abbreviations
...........................................................................................
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Introduction
............................................................................................. 1
Preamble: religious ambiguity
...................................................... 1
Augustine: primary dogmatician of the Christian church
.... 2
Augustine on the cutting edge of speaking and being silent
.. 7
Chapter
1:
Affirmative or negative discourse about God? Augustine s
background and context
................................................................. 21
Anthropomorphic popular culture
.............................................. 21
Biblical, Middle-Platonic and Neo-Platonic thought
................ 24
Further developments: kataphasis, apophasis and negative
theology
........................................................................................ 32
Chapter
2:
Acceptance of unknowing and aversion to anthropo¬
morphisms:
De ordine
(386)
and
De Genesi
aduersus Manicheos
(389)................................................................................................... 42
Certain insights obtained
.............................................................. 42
The horror of imagining God in human form
........................... 49
Impact on Augustine s exegesis
.................................................... 57
Chapter
3:
Realizing the incomprehensibility of God:
De diuersis
quaestionibus ad Simplicianum
(395)........................................... 62
Theology or mystagogy?
................................................................. 62
A mysterious justice, inaccessible to human measure
............ 67
The unexplored second book
......................................................... 74
Chapter
4:
Sensory perceptions as a mandatory requirement for the
via
negativa
towards God. Confessiones
(397-401) .................... 80
A striking composition
.................................................................. 80
Exceptional light
............................................................................ 83
Experience and faith in Book X
.................................................... 88
VI TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter
5:
Evocation and confrontation: In
epistolam
Johannis ad
Parthos(407)
....................................................................·...............
The Donatist controversy and the experience of God s incom¬
prehensibility
............................................................................... 99
The secret of love and love as a moment of knowledge
............ 101
Negation and love as key moments in hermeneutics
................ 107
Chapter
6:
Seeing God in the flesh? Letters to
Italica,
Paulina and
Fortunatianus
(408-414)................................................................. 109
Prelude: Augustine s letter to
Italica (epistula
92)..................... 109
Paulina s questions:
De videndo
deo liber (epistula
147)...........
Ill
A disconcerted attempt at clarification: epistula
148................ 121
Towards a negative anthropology
............................................... 125
Chapter
7:
The incomprehensibility of God as a cause of concern.
Some sermons
(410-415)................................................................ 128
The power of the witness
............................................................... 128
An apophatic sermon on the Trinity:
sermo
52......................... 130
The confinement of Solomon s temple:
sermones
23, 53
and
277 135
Chapter
8:
Negation in affirmation:
De Trinitate
(400-427)............ 145
An apophatic tenor
......................................................................... 145
The limits of doubt, doubting the limits
..................................... 151
Confident though uncertain: similitude {similitude) as a
source of hope
............................................................................. 161
Likeness of form
.............................................................................. 167
Chapter
9:
The merging of orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and negativity
in Augustine s preaching.
Sermo
117:
Contra
Arianos
.............. 175
A source for post-Christian oriented negative discourse? The
convergence of heterodoxy and orthodoxy
............................ 175
Thinking within the boundaries of time and space
.................. 179
The benefit of remaining silent
..................................................... 182
The merging of orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and negativity
........... 184
Excursus. God s incomprehensibility as a guiding principle to
speak authoritatively
................................................................... 189
Orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and apophasis
....................................... 191
Chapter
10:
Convinced of predestination and yet uncertain about
God?
................................................................................................... 193
Pelagius as the reason for apophatic discourse
.......................... 193
Reticence about God s presence and activity?
............................ 199
Uncertain and confident
................................................................ 205
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
VII
Chapter
11:
Approaching God: an assessment
................................... 211
Order and uncertainty
................................................................... 211
Approaching God
............................................................................ 213
Acknowledgements
................................................................................. 228
Bibliography
............................................................................................. 229
Index of Augustine s works
................................................................... 248
Index of subjects
...................................................................................... 257
Index of persons
...................................................................................... 259
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