The Incomprehensibility of God: Augustine As a Negative Theologian (Late Antique History and Religion, Band 4) - Hardcover

Van Geest, P

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 904292473X ISBN 13: 9789042924734

Verlag: Peeters Publishers, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Augustine's way of speaking about God has been frequently deplored. It has been dismissed as too confident regarding the content of its assertions and too narrowly confined. The reception of Augustine's work appears to indicate that there was not a little truth to this view. Augustine's affirmative statements on God's essence and activities constituted the 'initial capital' of Christian theology and spirituality. In contemporary religion, a tendency is in evidence to deny that too specific an image of God can really contain absolute truth. Fully formulated religious truths have to be placed in perspective, or must even be deconstructed, especially if the suspicion arises that they inhibit openness to authentic religious experiences of unity and harmony. Given such an outlook on religion, it seems understandable that those who take contemporary culture's renewed interest in religion seriously ignored Augustine's work as an authoritative source for 'post-Christian' discourse about God.

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• Verlag: Peeters Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 904292473X
• ISBN 13: 9789042924734
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
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