Faith Order Understanding
Natural Theology in the Augustinian Tradition
While Mackey's posthumous study is concerned, as its subtitle suggests, with 'the Augustinian tradition' -- he frequently refers to Anselm, Aquinas and Kierkegaard, and has chapters on Anselm and Gaunilon, Bonaventure, and Duns Scotus -- the first chapter is devoted to Augustine himself, and specifi...
Summary: | While Mackey's posthumous study is concerned, as its subtitle suggests, with 'the Augustinian tradition' -- he frequently refers to Anselm, Aquinas and Kierkegaard, and has chapters on Anselm and Gaunilon, Bonaventure, and Duns Scotus -- the first chapter is devoted to Augustine himself, and specifically, to the De libero arbitrio II.
See "The Idea of Order at Hippo Regius: Augustine's Proof of God's Existence" (pp. 7-45).
Mackey concludes, in the volume's final sentence: "This conjunction of an understanding founded in faith and a faith that craves understanding is the blessed rage for order that inspires and informs the Augustinian tradition" (p. 170). |
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