The rhetorical tradition and Augustinian hermeneutics in De doctrina christiana

Augustine understands the obscurities of scriptura in terms of the discrepancy between scriptum and voluntas and ambiguity. To resolve these obscurities, Augustine preserves with the oppositions literal/spiritual and literal/figurative both the legal and stylistic strategies of rhetorical interpreta...

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Author:Kathy Eden
Published: S.n., s.l., 1990
Volume:VIII
Pages:45-63
Periodical:Rhetorica
Format:Article
Topic:- Works > Augustine writer > Rhetoric. Dialectic > Rhetoric (persona)
- Works > Doctrinal works > De doctrina christiana
- Doctrine > From man to God > Divine revelation > Exegesis
Status:Active
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Summary:Augustine understands the obscurities of scriptura in terms of the discrepancy between scriptum and voluntas and ambiguity. To resolve these obscurities, Augustine preserves with the oppositions literal/spiritual and literal/figurative both the legal and stylistic strategies of rhetorical interpretation-theory.

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