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- Title
Articuli Temporis : St. Augustine and Phenomenology on the Temporal Syntax of God's Self-Disclosure.
- Authors
Roniger, Scott
- Abstract
In this essay, I articulate an Augustinian "philosophy of history" by highlighting some important texts sprinkled throughout St. Augustine's writings, especially his City of God. I concentrate on Augustine's claim that there are "joints of time" that structure God's self-disclosure to us through sacred history, and I develop these Augustinian insights with the help of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology. While Augustine enables us to see that God's revelation is achieved in a sacred history that illuminates the deepest structure and order of the temporal flow of human events, Husserl's phenomenology can be used to show that the structure and order of sacred history is fitting for our natural human mode of encountering being through successive stages of presence and absence. Husserl's descriptions of the ways in which the identical thing is given to us in grades of fulfillment sheds light on the mystery of God's revelation by highlighting the temporal dimension of our grasping of the being of things. Throughout the essay, I make use of Robert Sokolowski's writings in the areas of Husserlian phenomenology and the theology of disclosure.
- Subjects
HUSSERL, Edmund, 1859-1938; SELF-disclosure; AUGUSTINE, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430; REVELATION; GOD; SYNTAX (Grammar); PHENOMENOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY of history
- Publication
Religions, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 4, p384
- ISSN
2077-1444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rel15040384