Augustine and the art of understanding (moral, church, scriptures, bible)

[angellous_evangellous]

I've recently discovered that Augustine's work on the Trinity is very important to the development of the epistemology of understanding as formulated by Heidegger and Gadamer.

CHURCH FATHERS: On the Trinity, Book I (St. Augustine)

See especially chapter 3 section 5.

Also critical is the points that Augustine makes in 2.1.1

NPNF1-03. On the Holy Trinity; Doctrinal Treatises; Moral Treatises | Christian Classics Ethereal Library

For He neither does other things in like manner, as a painter paints other pictures, in the same way as he sees others to have been painted by another man; nor the same things in a different manner, as the body expresses the same letters, which the mind has thought; but “whatsoever things,” saith He, “the Father doeth, these same things also doeth the Son likewise.”218218 John v. 19 He has said both “these same things,” and “likewise;” and hence the working of both the Father and the Son is indivisible and equal, but it is from the Father to the Son. Therefore the Son cannot do anything of Himself, except what He seeth the Father do. From this rule, then, whereby the Scriptures so speak as to mean, not to set forth one as less than another, but only to show which is of which, some have drawn this meaning, as if the Son were said to be less. And some among ourselves who are more unlearned and least instructed in these things, 39endeavoring to take these texts according to the form of a servant, and so misinterpreting them, are troubled. And to prevent this, the rule in question is to be observed whereby the Son is not less, but it is simply intimated that He is of the Father, in which words not His inequality but His birth is declared.

[Scuba Pete]

I was agreeing with him until I read "the rule in question". THHHHHHHHHWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! We have a foul on the field! Unnecessary rules for living. We have a one paragraph penalty.