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Luigi Gioia provides a fresh description and analysis of
Augustine's monumental treatise, De Trinitate, working on a
supposition of its unity and its coherence from structural,
rhetorical, and theological points of view. The main arguments of
the treatise are reviewed first: Scripture and the mystery of the
Trinity; discussion of 'Arian' logical and ontological categories;
a comparison between the process of knowledge and formal aspects of
the confession of the mystery of the Trinity; an account of the so
called 'psychological analogies'. These topics hold a predominantly
instructive or polemical function. The unity and the coherence of
the treatise become apparent especially when its description
focuses on a truly theological understanding of knowledge of God:
Augustine aims at leading the reader to the vision and enjoyment of
God the Trinity, in whose image we are created. This mystagogical
aspect of the rhetoric of De Trinitate is unfolded through
Christology, soteriology, doctrine of the Holy Spirit and doctrine
of revelation. At the same time, from the vantage point of love,
Augustine detects and powerfully depicts the epistemological
consequences of human sinfulness, thus unmasking the fundamental
deficiency of received theories of knowledge. Only love restores
knowledge and enables philosophers to yield to the injunction which
resumes philosophical enterprise as a whole, namely 'know thyself'.
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