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Augustine’s De Trinitate: My Complete Summaries
Leave a commentMay 15, 2013 by mattwilcoxen
Lewis Ayres and Michel Rene Barnes, eat your hearts out. I’ve completed my journey through the 15 books of Augustine’s De …
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De Trinitate, book 15
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Augustine has been training his reader to see reflections of God in the things that have been made. He does …
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De Trinitate, book 14
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“Now it is wisdom’s turn to be discussed.” Augustine is not talking about the wisdom proper to God, but the …
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De Trinitate, book 13
1May 14, 2013 by mattwilcoxen
The first chapter of book 13 is a basic reiteration of the distinction between knowledge and wisdom which was given …
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De Trinitate, book 12
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Augustine’s first move in book 12 is to distinguish between two functions of human reason, and these were implicit throughout …
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De Trinitate, book 11
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At the end of book 10 Augustine reached a turning point in his quest for an image of the Trinity …
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A Mother without Children
2May 13, 2013 by mattwilcoxen
Give me children, or else I die. (Genesis 30:1) Rachel’s words aren’t melodramatic. Barrenness is death. The barren woman knows …
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