A New Apophaticism : Augustine and the Redemption of Signs

Ticciati, Susannah

Brill（2015/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004290532
• DDC分類 230.14092

Full Description

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

Acknowledgments ... vii
Abbreviations ... ix
Note on Translations and Conventions ... xi
Key Texts from De dono perseuerantiae ... xiii

Introduction ... 1

1 Contemporary Apophaticism ... 23

PART ONE
TRANSFORMATION

2 Augustine's Doctrine of Predestination: The Contours ... 55

3 Augustine's Doctrine of Predestination: A Performative Analysis ... 73

4 Augustine's Doctrine of Predestination: An Indexical Analysis ... 105

PART TWO
SIGNIFICATION

5 Creatures as Signs of God ... 137

6 The Transformation of Semiosis ... 175

PART THREE
TRANSFORMING SIGNS

7 Augustine's Doctrine of Predestination: A Semiotic Analysis ... 199

8 God-Language ... 217

Bibliography ... 247
Index ... 253