The incomprehensibility of God

Augustine as a negative theologian

Summary: Augustine's way of speaking about God has been frequently deplored. It has been dismissed as too confident regarding the content of its assertions and too narrowly confined. The reception of Augustine's work appears to indicate that there was not a little truth to this view. Augustine's aff...

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Bibliographic Details
Author:Paul van Geest
Published: Peeters, Leuven, 2011
Series:Late Antique History and Religion
Volume:4
Language:English
Total Pages:XIII, 262 p.
ISBN:978-90-429-2473-4
Format:Book
Topic:- Works > Dialogues / Early works > De ordine
- Works > Exegetical works > De Genesi adversus Manichaeos
- Works > Confessiones > Topics > God
- Works > Anti-Pelagian Works > De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum
- Works > In Ioannis Evangelium et Epistulam > Tractatus in Johannis Epistulam
- Doctrine > General studies > Development of Augustine's thoughts
- Doctrine > God. Trinity > God > [Conception humaine de Dieu]
- Doctrine > Man > [Doctrine de la connaissance] > [Connaissance humaine de Dieu] > [Connaissance humaine de Dieu - conscience religieuse]
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