Abstract

TRIVINO CUELLAR, Jonathan. INADECUATIO AND IPSE-IDENTITY A REFLECTION ON AUGUSTINIAN ANTHROPOLOGY. Univ. philos. [online]. 2011, vol.28, n.56, pp.141-161. ISSN 0120-5323.

The doctrine of the imago Dei in Augustine's thought is crucial to understand his intellectual and personal development and to grasp the theological and anthropological deployment took place later. This doctrine runs through his mind, but it has its largest deployment in the treatise De Trinitate. Augustine's meditation about the human being is guided by understanding Christianity has had of man as imago Dei from the words of the Creator in the creation account: "let us make man in our image and likeness" (Gn 1, 26). The saint undertakes to clarify the doctrine of the imago Dei, because there are great chasms in the Catholic understanding of man as an image of the Trinity. The Hiponense wishes to restore the image of God in man as a goal of his doctrine of the imago. What we now embark on is a reflection on this doctrine, showing how it is possible to develop a comprehensive anthropological conception from the Augustinian meditation. As anthropological consequences of this doctrine the man himself inadecuatio and ipse-identity characteristics of the imago Dei are exposed.

Keywords : imago Dei; inadecuatio; ipse-identity; De Trinitate; Confessions.

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