ST. AUGUSTINE’S DE TRINITATE

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The purpose of this seminar is to study St. Augustine’s De Trinitate, setting out in detail his theological investigation of an immaterial image of the Trinity. Our study is primarily foundational, indicating how St. Augustine developed analogy as different from metaphor and how created knowing and loving as imago Dei dema nd the movement from our descriptive categories of God to the Triune God as revealed Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. A reading knowledge of Latin is strongly recommended. The seminar will look back to the classical philosophical and theological traditions on which Augustine’s theology builds and forward to the influence of his work on su bsequent Trinitarian theology. The seminar will also engage with contemporary scholarship and debate that draws (and distinguishes itself from) Augustine’s Trinitarian theology.