The Quest for Truth in Augustine's de Trinitate

Theological Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 429-440

  Cavadini, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 84994908283     PISSN: 00405639     EISSN: 21691304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004056399705800302     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. "Libris de trinitate ... nimis operosi sunt et a paucis eos intellegi posse arbitrer," Epistola 169.1.1, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 44:612.6-9.
2. For citations from the De Trinitate, I use The Trinity, trans. Edmund Hill, O.P. (New York: New City, 1991)
3. Peter Brown locates his biography of Augustine "along the side of a mountain-face: ... above the plains of Augustine's routine duties as a bishop, and far below the heights of his speculations on the Trinity" (Augustine of Hippo [Berkeley: University of California, 1967] 277);
4. Colin E. Gunton, 'Trinity, Ontology and Anthropology," in Persons, Divine and Human, ed. Colin E. Gunton [Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1991] 49);
5. see also the expanded version of this critique in Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1991) 42-18.
6. "The Structure and Intention of Augustine's De trinitate," Augustinian Studies 23 (1992) 103-23.
7. For this reworking, see my "The Sweetness of the Word: Salvation and Rhetoric in Augustine's De doctrina Christiana," in De doctrina Christiana: A Classic of Western Culture, ed. Duane W. H. Arnold and Pamela Bright (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1995) 164-81.
8. see J. Pelikan, "Canonica Regula: The Trinitarian Hermeneutics of Augustine," in Proceedings of the PMR [Patristic, Mediaeval, Renaissance] Conference 1987-88 (vols 12 and 13) 17-29;
9. Cavadini, "Structure and Intention" 118 n. 42.
10. Robert A. Markus, "Augustine on Magic," in his Signs and Meanings: World and Text in Ancient Christianity (Liverpool: Liverpool University, 1996) 138-39.
11. Using language taken from Romans 12.