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A New Apophaticism: Augustine and the Redemption of Signs

A New Apophaticism: Augustine and the Redemption of Signs

Hardcover

General Christianity

ISBN10: 9004257713
ISBN13: 9789004257719
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 19 2013
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. Shifting the focus away from the potential and failure of words to say something about God, the book suggests that the purpose of God-language is to transform human beings in their relationship with God. Augustine's doctrine of predestination is read, with the help of speech-act theory and the study of indexicals, for its power to effect redemptive change; and his De doctrina christiana is drawn upon for its semiotics. Together they make way for the hypothesis that God-language transforms human beings into better signs of God.

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