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5 - Creation and Recreation

from Part II - Main Themes and Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Matthew Drever
Edited by
Tarmo Toom
Tarmo Toom
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

The theme of creation and recreation is at the heart of “Confessions,” and traces two moments in God’s relation to the world that are distinct and yet inseparable. On one hand, creation and recreation beckon toward their unity within the Trinitarian God: the Father forms creation through the eternal Word (Son) and within the Spirit’s love, and recreates through the eternal Word incarnate in Christ. On the other hand, creation and recreation disclose the fundamental ontological and moral character of human existence.

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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 75 - 91
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Brachtendorf, J. “… damit sie weinen lernen im Tal der Tränen. Augustin und die christliche Rehabilitation der Affekte.” In Unruhig ist unser Herz. Interpretationen zu Augustins Confessiones, ed. Fiedrowicz, M.. Trier: Paulinus, 2004, 123–139.Google Scholar
Harrison, C. “The Role of Creatio ex Nihilo in Augustine’s Confessions.” Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 85 (2003), 415–419.Google Scholar
O’Daly, G. “Time as Distentio and St. Augustine’s Exegesis of Philippians 3, 12–14.” Revue des Études Augustiniennes 23 (1977), 265–271.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ortiz, J. “You Made Us for Yourself”: Creation in St Augustine’s Confessions. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Torchia, N. J. Creatio ex nihilo and the Theology of St. Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Polemic and Beyond. American University Studies VII, Theology and Religion 205. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.Google Scholar
Torrance Kirby, W. J. “Praise as the Soul’s Overcoming of Time in the Confessions of St. Augustine,” Pro Ecclesia 6/2 (1997), 333–350.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Werpehowski, W. “Weeping at the Death of Dido: Sorrow, Virtue, and Augustine’s Confessions,” Journal of Religious Ethics 19/1 (1991), 175–191.Google Scholar
Williams, R. “Good for Nothing? Augustine on Creation,” Augustinian Studies 25 (1994), 9–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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  • Creation and Recreation
  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions'
  • Online publication: 22 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672405.008
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  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672405.008
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  • Creation and Recreation
  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions'
  • Online publication: 22 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672405.008
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