"That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God": The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine's De Trinitate.
Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine's De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, "analogy" in De Trin. names a form...
| Publicado en: | Modern Theology Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 708 - 730 |
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