‘Le Firmament de l’Écriture’: L’hermeneutique augustinienne. By Isabelle Bochet. Pp. 563. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité, 172.) Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2004. isbn 2 85121 203 6. Paper €69
The firmament, ‘the solid sphere in which the stars were thought to be fixed: the sky’, as a standard English dictionary puts it, was a source of inspiration for the whole of antiquity. Some took it literally as the eternal, never-changing part of the universe, others as that part of the universe th...
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| Language: | English |
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2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 325-327 |
| Review of: | "Le firmament de l'Écriture" (Paris : Institut d'Études Augustiniennes [u.a.], 2004) (Lössl, Josef)
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| Summary: | The firmament, ‘the solid sphere in which the stars were thought to be fixed: the sky’, as a standard English dictionary puts it, was a source of inspiration for the whole of antiquity. Some took it literally as the eternal, never-changing part of the universe, others as that part of the universe that most strongly resembled the meta-cosmic ‘world’, the world of metaphysics, which was not itself part of ‘this world’, the cosmos, but wholly transcendent. During his lifetime Augustine held both views. Acquiring the latter was an essential aspect of his conversion process and much of his writing is taken up defending his later (Platonist) against his earlier (Stoic–Manichaean) position. With the sky itself understood as a metaphor (in a strong sense), ‘une imitation de l’éternité’ (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj041 |