Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Part I : Augustine & Neoplationism
1. Augustine as Philosopher:The Birth of Christian Metaphysics
2. The Aim of Augustine’s Proof That God Truly Is
3. Spirituals and Spiritual Interpretation in Augustine
4. Love of Neighbor in Augustine
Part II : God & Speaking about God
5. Properties of God and the Predicaments in De Trinitate 5
6. Augustine’s Use of Substantia in Speaking about God
7. Divine Immutability in Augustine
Part III : Creation & Beginnings
8. The Motive for Creation according to Augustine
9. Problems with “The Beginning” in Augustine’s Sixth Commentary on Genesis
10. Augustine’s View of the Human Condition in De Genesi contra Manichaeos
Part IV: The Soul & Time
11. Augustine on the Incorporeality of the Soul in Letter 166
12. The World-Soul and Time in Augustine
13. Vocans temporales, faciens aeternos: Augustine on Liberation from Time
14. The Heaven of Heaven and the Unity of Augustine’s Confessiones
Bibliography
Index of Names