The Anti-Pelagian Christology of Augustine of Hippo, 396–430. By Dominic Keech
‘The first problem facing any student of Augustine in search of his Christology is finding it’ (p. 6). With this sentence the author of this fine monograph admirably commends himself as an expert in a notoriously difficult field. Needless to say, Dominic Keech can claim to have found a way to overco...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 741-743 |
| Review of: | The anti-Pelagian Christology of Augustine of Hippo, 396 - 430 (Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) (Lössl, Josef)
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | ‘The first problem facing any student of Augustine in search of his Christology is finding it’ (p. 6). With this sentence the author of this fine monograph admirably commends himself as an expert in a notoriously difficult field. Needless to say, Dominic Keech can claim to have found a way to overcome the difficulty of not ‘finding the wood among the trees’ (ibid.), that is Christ in Augustine’s oeuvre. One could express it in the words of St Ignatius of Loyola: he enters through Augustine’s door and exits through his own. He does not try to write a ‘general’ study of ‘Augustine’s Christology’, which, as Aloys Grillmeier showed all those years ago, would never fit with our received (Chalcedonian) expectations of how a Christology should (or should not) look. |
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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/flt106 |
