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By Joanne McWilliam, Timothy Barnes, Michael A. Fahey, Peter Slater
Joanne Me William used to be professor emerita of non secular reviews on the college of Toronto. She used to be a pioneer girl within the educational research of theology, focusing on Patristic reviews and the world over famous for her paintings on Augustine. T.D. Barnes is professor emeriti of Classics on the college of Toronto. Rev. Dr. Michael A. Fahey, S.J. is the Dean Emeritus of the school of Theology on the collage of St. Michael’s university C. Peter Slater is a professor of Divinity at Trinity collage in Toronto, Ontario.
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42 In other words> Augustine asserted the eldstence ofcwo principles - one good and the other evil. Both are substances and both are living. Tu ergo, domine ... pukher es. In books eleven through thirteen Augustine once again takes up these preoccupations of his youth responding to the questions raised in De pulchro et apto. However, this time Augustine is more concerned with the creator than creation. ; Slater, Peter. Augustine: From Rhetor to Theologian. Waterloo, ON, CAN: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992.
Citing Aristotle's Categon'es, which he calls the ••ten categories, " 41 Augustine subsumes the other nine categories under the chief category of substance. ividedne" of the other: and it seemed to me that in the unity lay the rational mind and the nature of truth and the supreme Good: but in the dividedness I thought! saw some substance of irrational life, and the nature of supreme Evil. This Evil I saw not only as substance but even as life ... " 42 In other words> Augustine asserted the eldstence ofcwo principles - one good and the other evil.
CtJnj. 20. 6t. Conj. 14. 62-. C()rif, I I ·4·6. 63. -38. ; Slater, Peter. Augustine: From Rhetor to Theologian. Waterloo, ON, CAN: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992. p 41. id=10139306&ppg=41 Copyright © 1992. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. All rights reserved. S. or applicable copyright law. S. or applicable copyright law. FROM LITERAL SELF-SACRIFICE TO LITERARY SELF-SACRIFICE: AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS AND THE RHETORIC OF TESTIMONY ---------------------------JAMIE SCOTT For the modem reader, the Co>ifessiorl$ pose immediate problems above and beyond those of simple historical diStance and secular detachment.