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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Augustine: Simply Seeking Understanding
From John Cavadini’s chapter “Simplifying Augustine” in the Eerdmans compilation Educating People of Faith: Exploring the History of Jewish and Christian Communities:
[I]t is my intention to compare De Trinitate with Semones ad populum. De Trinitate is arguably one of the most difficult or “esoteric” works Augustine ever wrote. He himself remarked that he expected it to be understood only by ‘few’... On the other hand, the nearly 550 Sermones ad populum verfiable as Augustinian are some of the most accessible or exoteric [see footnote on p.66] works we have from Augustine ...
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 08/11 at 09:45 AM
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