عنوان

Augustine's Moulding of the Manichaean Idea of God in the Confessions

شماره

LA128977

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Augustine's Moulding of the Manichaean Idea of God in the Confessions

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Therese Fuhrer

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The present study aims to ask whether Augustine utilised elements of Manichaean theology to give an account of and profile to the Nicene Christian doctrinal system. In the Confessions Augustine links his narrative of the encounter with the Manichaeans, right from the start, to an epistemologically grounded critique of their idea of God (conf. 3.10f.). Whereas the pagan myths can be assigned the function of referring to non-fictional and thus 'true' spheres of meaning, the motifs of Manichaean myth are empty forms (phantasmata) without any reference to reality, which they are supposed to explain. The paper argues that this anti-Manichaean critique of myth is the starting-point for a theory of knowledge of God which opposes the biblical imago dei to the Manichaean phantasmata and can thus be understood as having been conceptualised in opposition to Mani's doctrine of God. The present study aims to ask whether Augustine utilised elements of Manichaean theology to give an account of and profile to the Nicene Christian doctrinal system. In the Confessions Augustine links his narrative of the encounter with the Manichaeans, right from the start, to an epistemologically grounded critique of their idea of God (conf. 3.10f.). Whereas the pagan myths can be assigned the function of referring to non-fictional and thus 'true' spheres of meaning, the motifs of Manichaean myth are empty forms (phantasmata) without any reference to reality, which they are supposed to explain. The paper argues that this anti-Manichaean critique of myth is the starting-point for a theory of knowledge of God which opposes the biblical imago dei to the Manichaean phantasmata and can thus be understood as having been conceptualised in opposition to Mani's doctrine of God.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

531-547

عنوان

Vigiliae Christianae

شماره جلد

67/5

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0720

اصطلاح موضوعی

Augustine

اصطلاح موضوعی

Confessions

اصطلاح موضوعی

critique of myth

اصطلاح موضوعی

Manichaean theology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Therese Fuhrer

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700720-12341155

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y