Luigi Gioia offers a clean description and research of Augustine's huge treatise, De Trinitate, engaged on a supposition of its solidarity and its coherence from structural, rhetorical, and theological issues of view. the most arguments of the treatise are reviewed first: Scripture and the secret of the Trinity; dialogue of "Arian" logical and ontological different types; a comparability among the method of information and formal features of the confession of the secret of the Trinity; an account of the so known as "psychological analogies." those issues carry a predominantly instructive or polemical functionality. The solidarity and the coherence of the treatise turn into obvious particularly while its description makes a speciality of a really theological knowing of information of God: Augustine goals at top the reader to the imaginative and prescient and pleasure of God the Trinity, in whose photo we're created. This mystagogical element of the rhetoric of De Trinitate is spread out via Christology, soteriology, doctrine of the Holy Spirit and doctrine of revelation. even as, from the vantage element of affection, Augustine detects and powerfully depicts the epistemological outcomes of human sinfulness, therefore unmasking the basic deficiency of got theories of information. merely love restores wisdom and permits philosophers to yield to the injunction which resumes philosophical firm as an entire, particularly "know thyself."
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