Augustine's early theology of image : a study in the development of pro-Nicene theology / Gerald Boersma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boersma, Gerald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Augustine.

Image of God--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Image of God.

Image of God--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

xiv, 318 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Part 1

I Hilary of Poitiers 19

Image in the Anti-Monarchian Writings 20

I Tertullian 20

II Novatian 27

Hilary's Development of Anti-Monarchian Image Theology 31

Hilary's Image Theology in the Nicene Context 36

Image as a Christological Term (Col. 1:15) 39

Image as an Anthropological Term (Gen. 1:26) 46

II Marius Victorinus 51

Substance and Image: Aristotle's Legacy 52

I Form and Matter 54

II Act and Potency 58

III The Cipher of Appropriation 60

Christ as Imago Dei 64

The Human Person Secundum Imaginem 72

I Human Psychology 75

II The Participatory Image 81

III Ambrose of Milan 87

The Imago Dei as a Spiritual Reality 89

I Image Christology 90

II Image Anthropology 95

The Embodied Imago 102

I Paul and the Body 105

II Plotinus and the Body 108

The Moral Imperative of the Imago Dei 112

I Sequi Naturam 114

II Apathela 116

III Cosmetics and Virginity 118

IV Transvalued Desires in De officeüs 124

Conclusion 129

Part 2

IV The Plotinian Image 135

Participatio, Imago, Similitudo 136

Interlude: Plotinus, Porphyry, and Augustine's Platonic Sources 141

The Plotinian Image 144

The Challenge of Emanation 153

The Philosophy of Image in the Soliloquia 159

V Proteus and Participation 165

The Preface to Book II (Contra Academicos 2.1-2.3) 166

I Wisdom 167

II Truth 169

III Philosophy 173

Proteus (Contra Academicos 3.5.11-3.6.13) 176

The Platonic Image and the Incarnation (Contra Academicos 3.17.37-3.20.45) 183

VI The Analogical and Embodied Imago Dei 189

Analogia, Aequalitas, and the Imago 191

Aequalitas in Victorinus and Augustine 203

The Body and the Imago Dei 207

I Genesis 1:26 and Genesis 2:7 209

II "Male and Female He Created Them" 213

III The Inner and Outer Man 217

Conclusion 221

VII The Ascent of the Image in De vera religione 224

The Plotinian Metaphysic of Image 228

Intellectual and Moral Obstacles to the Ascent of the Image 234

The Necessity of Grace in the Ascent 243

Ascent to the Holy Trinity 247

Conclusion 252.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's dissertation, Durham University, 2013 under the title The Context of Augustine's Early Theology of the Imago Dei

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-296) and index.

ISBN:

9780190251369

0190251360

OCLC:

911617537