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Impulse aus der Augustinforschung

Published/Copyright: September 27, 2019
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Evangelische Theologie
From the journal Evangelische Theologie Volume 79 Issue 5

Abstract

Research in Augustine is manifold. Recent scholarship in Germany focused upon Augustine‘s heresiology (esp. against Manichaeism, but also Pelagianism, Donatism, Priscillianism), the controversy with Neoplatonism, his exegesis (esp. in sermons and in de Genesi ad litteram), emotions (esp. for the description of sin and grace), and his widespread correspondence. As important impulses for modern theology, his concept of God may be of special interest. God establishes his will in time and history and cannot be urged against his will. This is the presupposition not only for Augustine’s christology and pneumatology, but also for his understanding of history and his doctrine of grace. The latter takes into consideration the social context of human beings, the emotional character of voluntary decisions and the ongoing development of individual identity. Furthermore, good and evil are not equal options, but the good is only possible if God enables the individual to act according to his insights and exerts a direct influence upon one's will. Insights or knowledge are not salvific by themselves, but belong to one’s development that leads to a better understanding of creation and revelation exactly when it is orientated towards God’s salvific operations.

Online erschienen: 2019-09-27
Erschienen im Druck: 2019-09-01

© 2019 by Gütersloher Verlagshaus

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https://doi.org/10.14315/evth-2019-790510

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. INHALT
  3. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Heftes
  4. Themenheft: Die Polyphonie der Theologien der Kirchenväter
  5. Zu diesem Heft
  6. Hauptartikel
  7. Polyphonic Theology of the Fathers/polyphone Theologie der Kirchenväter. Bemerkungen zu einem Konzept und seiner Brauchbarkeit
  8. Justin
  9. Clement of Alexandria
  10. Basilius von Cäsarea (329?–378?) in der Polyphonie der Kirchenväter
  11. Johannes Chrysostomus
  12. Theodoret of Cyrus. An Access to the polyphonic context of Antiochia
  13. Impulse aus der Augustinforschung
  14. Die polyphone Theologie der Kirchenväter. Der Beitrag des Johnnes von Damaskus
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