Spejlets gåde: strukturelle of filosofiske aspekter i Augustins "Bekendelser"
Resumé In this article the point of departure for presenting a hermeneuticreading of Augustine’s Confessiones is taken in St. Paul 1 Cor. 13:12 where Paul speaks of our being earthly conditioned to see everything in a mirror as if in a riddle until we stand face to face with our creator. In a select...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | Danish |
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2011
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Dansk teologisk tidsskrift
Year: 2011, Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Pages: 116-135 |
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Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430, Confessiones
/ Relationship to God
/ Christian life
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B Augustinus, Aurelius Saint (354-430) Confessiones B Confessiones B Kierkegaard B Selfhood B Cosmology B hermeneutic understanding B nature of love B the church as heavenly mother B mirror as metaphor B personal life history |
| Summary: | Resumé In this article the point of departure for presenting a hermeneuticreading of Augustine’s Confessiones is taken in St. Paul 1 Cor. 13:12 where Paul speaks of our being earthly conditioned to see everything in a mirror as if in a riddle until we stand face to face with our creator. In a selective reading of Confessiones, I argue that the book is structured in a two layered manner in which the relationship between Augustine and his earthly parents is transposed to a relationship between these relatives, on the one hand, and their heavenly parents in God and his church, on the other. I further argue that Augustine’s individual life story in a similar vein gains its fulfilment in the creation and consummation of the world. Thus, in the concluding exegesis of the introducing verses of Genesis, in which God’s concreatio of time and matter mirrors human existence, Augustine unfolds the prospect of a totality only to be grasped face to face with the creator, that is, in the eschatological revelation of the love of God. |
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| ISSN: | 0105-3191 |
| Contains: | In: Dansk teologisk tidsskrift
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