Etiam peccata?: la mise à profit des péchés dans l'économie du salut selon Augustin d'Hippone
“Etiam peccata - Saint Augustine”: this epigraph to Paul Claudel's Soulier de Satin has provoked a debate on the attribution to the bishop of Hippo of this expression, which has become proverbial and is understood as a gloss on Romans 8:28: “Everything contributes to the good of those who love...
| Summary: | “Etiam peccata - Saint Augustine”: this epigraph to Paul Claudel's Soulier de Satin has provoked a debate on the attribution to the bishop of Hippo of this expression, which has become proverbial and is understood as a gloss on Romans 8:28: “Everything contributes to the good of those who love God”... even sins (etiam peccata). After first confirming that, although Augustine does not use this expression in this sense, he frequently develops the idea of a divine use of sins, the present research proposes an in-depth analysis of the Augustinian conception of the use of sins: first by returning to the notions of sin, the penalty of sin and the permission of sin, then by distinguishing the modalities of the putting to use of sin, starting from the Augustinian experience, the typology developed in De continentia 15 and the exegesis of great biblical figures of sinners - Adam, the apostle Peter denying and weeping over his denial, the patriarchs whose sins are reported by the Holy Scriptures. Finalized by humility, the use of sins in this way finds its exemplum in the death and resurrection of Christ, the supreme proof that God can realise good even from the evil of sin |
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| Item Description: | Bibliographie p. [523]-558. Index Édition commerciale: Thèse de doctorat, Théologie, Centre Sèvres, Facultés jésuites de Paris, Faculté de théologie, 2022 |
| Physical Description: | 594 Seiten, 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 2851213377 |