"· The Theological Significance of The City of God in General 115 (continued)
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Chapter 3. God in the Chri>tian Program of Life
I. TI.e Vi>ion of the Omnipresent God
125 125 125 127 129 130 130 132 135 136 137 138 140 143 a. Introductory Remarks on Letters 147 and 187 b. Tile Treatise on the Vision of God (Lener 1~7) c. Tile Treathc on the Presence of God (Leuer 187) cl. Concluding Assessment 2. God Merciful ancJ Just (1, TI1c ldeo of God in the Anti-Pelagian Writings before 418 b. Tho ldc11 of God in tlte Later Anti-Pelnginn Writings 3. 'l11c God of All the Faithl'ul a. The Unfathomable Mystct)' of God b. Prnise of the 1'ranscendem God c. '11•c Indescribable Greatness of God d. Tite Cod of the Baptismal Catcchescs c. God in the Eucharistic Prayer
Preface
"Books too have their history." This rather trite 'aying applies to the present study of Tile Grace of Cilrisr ond rh~ Grace of God in Augusrine of lfipJJ{). Eight years ago,l wa< invited by the editors of theA11gustimts-Lexikon to collaborate on the article.< "Christ" and "God." lt was finally agreed that 1 olone should write the first of these two anicle.; and be the principal writer of the •econd. With a view to the dischruge of this by no means easy tas~. I deVOied a major pan of my scholarly work 10 Augustine's Cbristology and his teaching about God. For reasons that I need not go imo here, but to my own regret. the two contribmions, which were substantially finished by the fall of Chapter~- The Principal Features of Augustine's Picture of God
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I. A Double Perspective 2. The Tension betw<'Cn God in the Divine Self (Deus in s~l and Cod in Relation to Us (D~11.r ad nos) 3. The Idea of God and Religious Knowledge
150 151
Summary
1990. could not appear in the Le.<ikon. I mention all this because it largely cxpl(lins. and perhaps excuses, the special character of the present work. To begin with, it renders intelligible what
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Notes
at first sight appear to be unconventional limits pl~cccl on the study of the two themes. The study of Christ. which fonns the first pan of the present book, is conccmed chiefly, although not exclusively, wilh pas:sagcs in which the word "Christ" occurs. The second smdy. which provides the substance of tbe second part of the book. does not deal with the whole of Augustine's teaching about God but is limited to the concept of "Cod." In panicular, Augustine's teaching on the Trinity is taken up only 10 the extent that it deals with "God the Father" and "one God."
Bibliography
Indexes
I. Scripture Texts 2. Persons 3. Subjects and Concepts
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In addition. traces naturally remain of my original purpose, which was to write two articles for a lexicon. I have, howe,.,r, tr•nslmcd the lengthier passages of Augustine and ha\'C allowed only shorter. more stereotyped citations to be given in Latin. Furthermore. I took the two themes as the subjects of my lectures in the flfSt semester of the academic years 19901991 and 1991-1992 at the Augustinian PatTistic Institute in Rome. My presentation may therefore smack somewhat of the classroom.
But the concrete circumstances that led to the preseut book in its tinal I01"1n have had their <1dvant.::tge as well. Despite t·he limitations set on them. lJle two studies combined here bring tO lisht a tension that dominates the entire