RT Book
T1 The gift of love: Augustine, Jean-Luc Marion, and the trinity
T2 Emerging scholars
A1 Staron, Andrew
LA English
PP Minneapolis, MN
PB Fortress Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1630332356
AB The Gift of Love explores the intelligibility of Augustine's claim that we come to know and encounter God in and through our love. Building upon the discoveries of recent scholarship, Andrew Staron reads Augustine's De Trinitate not as presenting the Trinity as a concept to be grasped, but rather as a rational study of the limits of theological language and the possibility of coming to know the Trinity because of those limits. Human dependence on God's initiative indicates that the Trinitarian God of love is knowable only through attention to how God's self-revelation transforms and saves us. Therefore, to see God, one seeks to mark love's formative activity within the heart. Jean-Luc Marion's rigorous description of the gift of love offers to Augustine's theology a phenomenological texture by which the Trinitarian love given in revelation might be made incarnate in one's life. The Gift of Love presents a reason for hope that while coming to know "the Trinity that God is" might be impossible for human beings, it is made possible by God's antecedent gift of love, given in the missions Son and Holy Spirit, and iconically received in the particularity of one's own love. - from publisher
NO Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 2013 under title: Deciphering the gift of love : reading Augustine's De Trinitate through Jean-Luc Marion. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-400) and index
CN BR65.A69752
SN 9781506423401
SN 150642340X
K1 Augustine 354-430
K1 Marion, Jean-Luc 1946- : Marion, Jean-Luc 1946- : De Trinitate (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
K1 Trinity
K1 Love : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Hochschulschrift