4. Cited from Rotelle, ed.. We Are Your Servants, 35. (continued)
Notes <■ 177 the result of a depression caused by a slipped disc in his back. I also think that Fr. Hill's dismissal of the significance of the words persona in Latin and hypostasis in Greek for the persons of the Trinity needs a lot of qual¬ ification. Obviously these terms applied to the Trinity are analogues, as is anything we say about God, but the usefulness of these analogues is bom out by this entire book on the Trinity and, in fact, by the whole the¬ ological understanding of Christianity. Why pick this one word out for attack, especially since this one word is of such great importance in con¬ temporary psychology and might even lead us out of some of the abysmal confusion at the present time about the divine person of Christ? I refer to the Jesus-with-identity-crisis school of thought that makes up the party of modemagnotes (if you are not familiar with this term, in the ancient church it meant people who denied that Christ knew the day of judgment). I think Fr. Hill's use of Raimundo Pannikkar's cynical remark to some African bishops suggesting that they were fortunate not to have words in their native language for "nature" and "person" is dis¬ concerting. I know a number of African bishops who would agree with me. These difficulties do not keep Fr. Hill's work from being a marvelous map for exploring Augustine's great work.
8. Hill, The Works of St. Augustine, 66-67. 9. Sermons 130,9, and 17. Cf. Hill, The Works of St. Augustine, 239-40. Fr. Hill discusses the difficulty many will have when reading what he calls the Platonic style of discourse. His explanation may be some help to those who do not think this way. My personal opinion is that there are many who do think this way, including me.
10. Cited from Clark, Augustine, 314-15. 11. Benedict J. Groeschel, A Still Small Voice: The Church's Teaching on Reported Private Revelations (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992).
12. Cited from Clark, Augustine, 326. 13. Ibid., 312. 14. John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University (London: Longmans Green, 1901), 217-18.
Chapter Six Augustine the Historian—The City of God
1. Gilson, The Christian Philosophy, 21-25. 2. City of God, ed. Bourke (see chap. 2, n. 3), 10. All references to the City of God in this chapter are to this edition.
3. The Literal Meaning of Genesis. 4. Cited from Rotelle, ed.. We Are Your Servants, 35. 5. City of God 19.14. 6. Ibid.