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Space in Coercive Poetry. Augustine’s Psalm Against the Donatists and His Interpretation of the Fear of God In Enarrationes in Psalmos

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2016
This contribution consists of two parts. The first part identifies Augustine’s qualities as a mystagogue on the basis of the only poem he wrote that has been handed down: the Psalm against the Donatists.
Geest Paul J. J. van
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I Believe in order to Understand:An Externalist Analysis of Augustin’s Viewpoint [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2013
The Augustinian theologian's unusual assertion that understanding rests on the faith, seems to be confronted with various objections. Through analyzing, criticizing, and refuting these objections, we will clarify epistemological status of this assertion. 
Mahdi Soleimani Khormuji, Jahangir Masoudi   +1 more
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Black and slave? ‘Mestizo’ Augustine on Ham

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
After discussing the so-called Ham myth in South Africa, my focus is on the African church father Augustine (354–430). All texts from his immense oeuvre in which he mentions biblical Ham are reviewed in chronological order.
Johannes van Oort
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Angels and the Theology of Salvation in the Bible: The Interpretive approach of Saint Augustine [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
Angels play a central role for Augustine in the Bible and, consequently, in the doctrine of salvation. In his works, he seeks to design a structure to explain the ontological position of angels in order to introduce them as important elements of the ...
Ali Moradi, Sahar Kavandi
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The Daughter of the Word: What Luther Learned from the Early Church and the Fathers

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019
All the major sixteenth-century Reformers knew something about the early church and used the early Fathers. As an Augustinian monk and professor of theology, however, Luther’s knowledge and use of the great Father was both deeper and more nuanced.
Thompson Glen L.
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An investigation into Calvin's use of Augustine

Acta Theologica, 2008
This article briefly investigates the use of Augustine as an authority from the early church in John Calvin’s writings. Calvin frequently referred to and quoted Augustine in his writings.
S. J. Han
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What Does the Happy Life Require? Augustine on What the Summum Bonum Includes [PDF]

, 2020
Many critics of religion insist that believing in a future life makes us less able to value our present activities and distracts us from accomplishing good in this world. In Augustine's case, this gets things backwards.
Cohoe, Caleb
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Jean Grondin. To the composition of «Truth and Method»: Introductory article and Russian translation [PDF]

Религия, церковь, общество, 2016
The translation of the paper «To the composition of “Truth and Method”» by Jean Grondin (1994) is dedicated to history and context of emergence of H.-G. Gadamer’s «Truth and Method».
Tatian Valer’evna Litvin
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The Just War Tradition and Natural Law [PDF]

, 2004
This Essay is divided into three parts. First, it briefly discusses Augustine on the notion of a naturalistic morality implanted in human minds and hearts. Second, it traces the ways in which such notions as human nature figure in Augustinian and post-
Elshtain, Jean Bethke
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Augustine on music as the harmonious language of spirituality: An apophatic theological study

In die Skriflig
This article arose from the study of apophatic theology also known as the via-negativa. Apophatic theology, by definition, refrains from stating what and who God is instead of focusing on what God is not.
Godfrey T. Baleng
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