To Know God and the Soul: Essays on the Thought of Saint Augustine (Early Christian Studies)

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 18
Part I : Augustine & Neoplationism......Page 20
1. Augustine as Philosopher:The Birth of Christian Metaphysics......Page 22
2. The Aim of Augustine’s Proof That God Truly Is......Page 45
3. Spirituals and Spiritual Interpretation in Augustine......Page 68
4. Love of Neighbor in Augustine......Page 89
Part II : God & Speaking about God......Page 110
5. Properties of God and the Predicaments in De Trinitate 5......Page 112
6. Augustine’s Use of Substantia in Speaking about God......Page 131
7. Divine Immutability in Augustine......Page 150
Part III : Creation & Beginnings......Page 172
8. The Motive for Creation according to Augustine......Page 174
9. Problems with “The Beginning” in Augustine’s Sixth Commentary on Genesis......Page 184
10. Augustine’s View of the Human Condition in De Genesi contra Manichaeos......Page 199
Part IV: The Soul & Time......Page 214
11. Augustine on the Incorporeality of the Soul in Letter 166......Page 216
12. The World-Soul and Time in Augustine......Page 235
13. Vocans temporales, faciens aeternos: Augustine on Liberation from Time......Page 257
14. The Heaven of Heaven and the Unity of Augustine’s Confessiones......Page 278
Bibliography......Page 294
Index of Names......Page 306