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Augustine: Major Writings

Augustine: Major Writings

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14. McGinn, Foundations, 239. 15. Butler, Western Mysticism, 22-23. 16. Ibid., 23-24. 17. See N. Heler, The Exemplar, trans. Sr. Ann Edward (2 vols.; Chicago: Priory Press, 1962).

18. Cf. Augustine, Literal Meaning of Genesis, trans. H. Taylor (Ancient Christian Writers 42; New York: Newman Press, 1982).

19. Bourke, Essential Augustine, 126. 20. McGinn, Foundations, 235. 21. Ibid. 22. Bonaventure, The Soul's Journey into God, ed. E. Cousins (Classics of Western Spirituality; New York: Paulist Press, 1978), 113.

23. Clark, Augustine, 365. 24. McGinn, Foundations, 242-43. 25. Butler, Western Mysticism, 45. 26. Ibid., 23. 27. From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., ed., We Are Your Servants, trans. Audrey Fellows (Philadelphia: Augustinian Press, 1986).

28. Brown, Augustine, 409. 29. Butler, Western Mysticism, 20. 30. Cited from Rotelle, ed.. We Are Your Servants, 101-3.

Chapter Five Augustine—Theologian of the Trinity

1. Edmund Hill gives a fine review of Augustine's patristic sources as well as his scriptural basis (The Works of St. Augustine [Brooklyn: New City Press, 1991], 27-45).

2. J. H. Newman, The Arians (London: Basil, Montague & Pickering, 1876). 3. Clark, Augustine, xvi. 4. McGinn, Foundations, 247. 5. Hill, The Works of St. Augustine, The Trinity, 25. 6. Ibid. 7.1 must mention that I do not always agree with Fr. Hill's application of Augustine to the contemporary theological battlefields, but he makes his points well. Two instances of my disagreement are the following: his use of the Anglican bishop John A. T. Robinson's book Honest to God at the end of the introduction (p. 56). At a delightful tea with the Bishop and Mrs. Robinson over Devonshire cream and rhubarb marmalade in their home on the Sussex Downs (hollyhocks, Irish setter, and all), I heard Dr. Robinson clearly distance himself both from this book and the theological currents that it set off. He assured me that Honest to God was

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