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A monumental achievement! Augustine truly gets at the heart of the Trinity and brings about a clearer picture of this complex doctrine. If you are a believer you must read this book!
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What Father Hill has provided is a splendid translation, made from a trustworthy Latin text, of what is for some of us the foundation work of Christian theology. He has fitted out his translation, clearly the best of the four that have been made into English, with notes that go well beyond the perfunctory and a 38-page introduction that is a delight to read. Journal of Religion and Health Barry Ulanov Hill has recovered the De trinitate for its dynamism, its intimacy are back; the voice, that of the author of The Confessions and the Sermons, is once again recognizable to English readers. Journal of Early Christian Studies John C. Cavadini University of Notre Dame The volumes on The Trinity and the Sermons already published have set a very high standard in accuracy and a lively, readable and idiomatic English style. They are a pleasure to read, instructive, and, with their introductions and notes, often illuminating. They will be useful to students, their teachers as well as a wider public. Robert A. Markus, Notre Dame University
472 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,0416
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472 pages, Hardcover
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October 1, 1991 by New City Press of the Focolare
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9780911782899
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0911782893
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English
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Early church father and philosopher Saint Augustine served from 396 as the bishop of Hippo in present-day Algeria and through such writings as the autobiographical Confessions in 397 and the voluminous City of God from 413 to 426 profoundly influenced Christianity, argued against Manichaeism and Donatism, and helped to establish the doctrine of original sin.
An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.
People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."
The Neo-Platonism of Plotinus afterward heavily weighed his years. After conversion and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to theology and accommodated a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed in the indispensable grace to human freedom and framed the concept of just war. When the Western Roman Empire started to disintegrate from the material earth, Augustine developed the concept of the distinct Catholic spirituality in a book of the same name. He thought the medieval worldview. Augustine closely identified with the community that worshiped the Trinity. The Catholics and the Anglican communion revere this preeminent doctor. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider his due teaching on salvation and divine grace of the theology of the Reformation. The Eastern Orthodox also consider him. He carries the additional title of blessed. The Orthodox call him "Blessed Augustine" or "Saint Augustine the Blessed."
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An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.
People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."
The Neo-Platonism of Plotinus afterward heavily weighed his years. After conversion and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to theology and accommodated a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed in the indispensable grace to human freedom and framed the concept of just war. When the Western Roman Empire started to disintegrate from the material earth, Augustine developed the concept of the distinct Catholic spirituality in a book of the same name. He thought the medieval worldview. Augustine closely identified with the community that worshiped the Trinity. The Catholics and the Anglican communion revere this preeminent doctor. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider his due teaching on salvation and divine grace of the theology of the Reformation. The Eastern Orthodox also consider him. He carries the additional title of blessed. The Orthodox call him "Blessed Augustine" or "Saint Augustine the Blessed."
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When I first got my hands on this translation (published by NCP), I was pretty excited... And I enjoyed it overall. I take issue with Augustine at several points in his theology... his understanding of our Lord's sovereignty, his soteriological anthropology etc... but I now, having read this, I also take issue with his theological method and conclusions regarding the Trinity... in the end, ultimately too Western for me... also at times flirts too heavily with autonomous reason and logic and not enough on exegesis and the mind of the church...
All of that said, now, let me qualify a lot of that. Augustine is truly blessed by God, he was a man of deep and radical repentance and MANY MANY good things to write... One can read almost anything that he wrote with great benefit. So, what ever I say, know that it is a matter of mere subjective opinion, not as one who is remotely qualified to comment of this deer and venerable brother in the Lord.
All of that said, now, let me qualify a lot of that. Augustine is truly blessed by God, he was a man of deep and radical repentance and MANY MANY good things to write... One can read almost anything that he wrote with great benefit. So, what ever I say, know that it is a matter of mere subjective opinion, not as one who is remotely qualified to comment of this deer and venerable brother in the Lord.
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Read excerpts for class.
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Dr. McCall you’re a crazy man for making me read this in 2 weeks
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Incredible. Augustine develops a psychological model of the Trinity by examining triadic patterns in human subjectivity: being, knowing, willing; memory, intellect, and will; mind, knowledge, and love; the lover, the beloved, and the love that unites them; thinking, speaking, and willing. These patterns are put in place to serve as imaginative exercises for speaking and thinking about God.
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It's wonderful, and at times a bit weird.
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Skimmed most
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Required reading for trinitarian studies as this is the basis for all other works of trinitarian theology. Though Augustine goes off the path into other matters at times, the entire work is stimulating. Perhaps the strongest aspect is its devotional and affectual nature which should serve as an example to all those engaged in theological discourse.
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