Lecture 9 Book XIII

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Lecture 9 Book XIII

• Dr. Ann T. Orlando

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Book XIII

• Historical context
• Reading the Text
• Influence

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Historical Background

• Allegorical interpretation of Scripture Philo of
  Alexandria
• Pauls Letters
• Augustine the Bishop
• Pelaginaism
• Donatism
• Relation to previous Books

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Confessions Structure

• Augustine's Reflection on His Past
• Book I From God birth and relationship of
  infant with mother
• Book II Bondage of Flesh
• Book III Slavery of eyes and mind problem of
  evil
• Book IV Ambition of World
• Book V Encounter with Faustus, Manichaeism,
  philosophy moving from Carthage to Rome
• Book VI Recognition of emptiness of worlds
  ambition
• Book VII Freedom of mind resolution of problem
  of evil
• Book VIII Liberation from bondage of flesh
• Book IX Relation to Monica, her death, return to
  God
• Augustines Present
• Book X Memory
• Book XI Time
• Book XII Interpreting Scripture
• Book XIII Trinity and Church

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Book XIII Outline

• Opening Prayer XIII.1.1
• Why did God create XIII.2.2 XIII.4.5
• Father, Son and Spirit XIII.5.6 XIII.11.12
• Allegorical understanding of days of creation
  XIII.12.13 XIII.21.31
• Man in Gods image XIII.22.32 XIII.32.47
• Seventh Day and Rest XIII.33.48 XIII.38.53

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Influence

• Trinity
• Anthropology