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A new apophaticism : Augustine and the redemption of signs / by Susannah Ticciati.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ticciati, Susannah.
- Series:
- Studies in systematic theology ; v. 14.
- Studies in systematic theology, 1876-1518 ; volume 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Negative theology--Christianity--History of doctrines.
- Negative theology.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Augustine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden [Netherlands] : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- part one. Transformation
- part two. Signification
- part 3. Transforming signs.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-25814-0
- OCLC:
- 860982816
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004258143 DOI
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