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On the Trinity

De Trinitate libri XV

El retrato más antiguo de Agustín (fresco de Letrán, s. VI)
byAugustine of Hippo

Fifteen books composed over some twenty years (c. 399–c. 420), published after an unfinished copy had circulated without permission. The first seven expound Trinitarian doctrine from Scripture and discuss the missions of the Son and the Spirit and the language of relations; the last eight seek in the human being, God's image, analogies of the Trinity: lover, beloved and love; mind, knowledge and love; and above all memory, understanding and will. The work is at once a dogmatic treatise and an exercise in inward ascent, and its so-called psychological analogy dominated Latin Trinitarian theology up to Thomas Aquinas and beyond.

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Reviewed in Retractationes II; prefatory letter to Aurelius of Carthage (Letter 174). Critical text: Mountain–Glorie, CCSL 50–50A (1968).

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  • Agustín de Hipona. Retractationum libri II. Ed. Almut Mutzenbecher. Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 57. Turnhout: Brepols, 1984.

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