Created in the Image of God: The Formation of the Augustinian Self
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Published on 2008 by ProQuest
Augustine often uses visual metaphors and concepts to explicate the self's relation to God, and I will work within this framework, developing an account of vision from Augustine's Platonist and Trinitarian commitments, to describe the mutable, relational nature of the self. From this framework I will examine how the fundamental identity of the self, which finds its fulfillment in the vision of God, is to be to the image of God, and more specifically to the image of the Trinity. Augustine equates the vision of God with wisdom, which I will argue involves a type of temporal movement to God in praise achieved through salvation in Christ. Thus, we will see that the self finds its true and full identity in a movement of praise, made possible through Christ, in which the self images the trinitarian God.
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