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The Incarnation of the Word - The Theology of Language of Augustine of Hippo (Hardcover, New)
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The Incarnation of the Word - The Theology of Language of Augustine of Hippo (Hardcover, New)
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An exploration of three of Augustine's central texts, the De
Trinitate, the De Doctrina Christiana, and the Confessions
elucidate the principles of Augustine's theology of language. This
is done in a systematic manner, which previous scholarship on
Augustine has lacked. Augustine's principles are revealed through a
close reading of these three core texts. Beginning with the De
Trinitate, the book demonstrates that Augustine's inquiry into the
character of the human person is incomplete. For Augustine, there
is a void without reference to the category of human speech, the
very thing that enables him to communicate his theological inquiry
into God and the human person in the De Trinitate. From here, the
book examines a central work of Augustine that deals with the
significance of divine and human speech, the De Doctrina
Christiana. It expounds this text carefully, showing three chief
facets of Augustinian thought about divine and human communication:
human social relations; human self-interpretation using scripture;
and preaching, the public communication of God's word. It accepts
the De Doctrina Christiana as laying theoretical foundations for
Augustine's understanding of the task of theology and language's
meaning and centrality within it. The book then moves to
Augustine's Confessions to see the principles of Augustine's
theology of language enacted within its first nine books.
Augustine's conversion narrative is analysed as a literary
demonstration of Augustine's description of human identity before
God, showing how speech and human social relations centrally
mediate God's relationship to humanity. For Augustine, human
identity properly speaking is confessional'. The book returns to
the De Trinitate to complete its analysis of that text using the
principles of the theology of language uncovered in the De Doctrina
Christiana and the Confessions. It shows that the first seven books
of that text, and its core structure, move around the principles of
the theology of language that the investigation has uncovered. To
this extent, theological inquiry for Augustine the human task of
looking for God is bound up primarily within the act of human
speech and the social relations it helps to compose. The book
closes with reflection on the significance of these findings for
Augustinian scholarship and theological research more generally.
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