Time and Eternity in Saint Augustine
Costa, Marcos Roberto Nunes
Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010)
Abstract
Every Augustinian disputation regarding to time – eternity relation arises from the need of combating the Manicheans and, by indirection, all those ones that affirmed, asserted world eternity, that denied ex nihilo Jewish – Christian Creation principle. Saint Augustine, departing from Genesis Scriptural Book in order to present a revelational founding and neoplatonic philosophy, in order to impart philosophic maintenance to the above – mentioned thesis, has ended up by moving away from not only Manichaeism, but from Neo-Platonism itself which has worked as philosophical foundation for contesting those ones.
Click here to read this article in Portuguese from Mirabilia
Time and Eternity in Saint Augustine
Costa, Marcos Roberto Nunes
Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010)
Abstract
Every Augustinian disputation regarding to time – eternity relation arises from the need of combating the Manicheans and, by indirection, all those ones that affirmed, asserted world eternity, that denied ex nihilo Jewish – Christian Creation principle. Saint Augustine, departing from Genesis Scriptural Book in order to present a revelational founding and neoplatonic philosophy, in order to impart philosophic maintenance to the above – mentioned thesis, has ended up by moving away from not only Manichaeism, but from Neo-Platonism itself which has worked as philosophical foundation for contesting those ones.
Click here to read this article in Portuguese from Mirabilia
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