Revelation 20:12-15: Augustine on the “book of life,” and the conflicting picture of predestination in De civitate dei 20,14-15
The article examines how Augustine’s interpretation of the “book of life” (liber vitae uniuscuiusque) in Rev20:12 and the “book of life” (liber vitae) in Rev20:15 in De civitate dei20,14–15 seems to put him at variance with his own theory of predestination. The contradictions that his two “books of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017
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Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 472-495 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430, De civitate dei
/ Bible
/ Predestination
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBL Doctrine of Predestination |
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Bible. Offenbarung des Johannes 20,12-15
B Judgement prescience Scripture human works language use final destinations |
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