Augustine and Nicene Theology

Essays on Augustine and the Latin Argument for Nicaea

Michel René Barnes

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781725292154
  9781725292161
• eBook ISBN:
  9781725292178
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

This book draws together a collection of thirteen published and unpublished articles which together constitute a new reading of the character and development of Latin Trinitarian theology in the fourth and fifth centuries. The focus of the essays is on Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE), but Augustine is treated here as an inheritor of earlier Latin tradition. Many of the figures of that tradition here receive a new interpretation--particularly Marius Victorinus. Augustine himself is explored from many angles; at every turn the developments in his theology are shown to be a response to the anti-Nicene theologies of the period. The beginning of the book discusses the manner in which modern "systematic" theology has engaged Augustine only through a simplified version of late-nineteenth-century categories. In conclusion, the broader question of how far modern theology can actually engage Patristic theology is explored at length.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Augustine in Contemporary Trinitarian Theology
• Chapter 2: De Régnon Reconsidered
• Chapter 3: Early Latin Trinitarian Theology
• Chapter 4: The Forms of Latin Theology
• Chapter 5: Other Latin Nicenes
• Chapter 6: Marius Victorinus
• Chapter 7: Rereading Augustine’s Trinitarian Theology
• Chapter 8: Exegesis and Polemic in De Trinitate I
• Chapter 9: The Arians of Book V and the Genre of De Trinitate
• Chapter 10: The Visible Christ and the Invisible Trinity
• Chapter 11: De Trinitate VI and VII
• Chapter 12: Augustine’s Last Pneumatology
• Chapter 13: Ebion at the Barricades
• Bibliography