On the Trinity edition by St Augustine of Hippo mod Paul A Boer Sr Rev Arthur West Haddan BD Religion Spirituality eBooks
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St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was one of the most prolific geniuses that humanity has ever known, and is admired not only for the number of his works, but also for the variety of subjects, which traverse the whole realm of thought. The form in which he casts his work exercises a very powerful attraction on the reader.
The fifteen books De Trinitate, on which he worked for fifteen years, from 400 to 416, are the most elaborate and profound work of St. Augustine. The last books on the analogies which the mystery of the Trinity have with our soul are much discussed. The saintly author himself declares that they are only analogous and are far-fetched and very obscure.
On the Trinity edition by St Augustine of Hippo mod Paul A Boer Sr Rev Arthur West Haddan BD Religion Spirituality eBooks
De Trinitate is at the peak of Christian thinking. It is also at the base of Christian Faith. The Christian virtue of Faith takes us beyond the realm of reason and even human intuition or human enlightenment. Augustine shows how the Trinity is revealed in the Sacred Scriptures. Augustine accepts the Sacred Scriptures because they have been authorised by the Catholic Church in its Synods. The Scripture used by Augustine was the Catholic Scripture and therefore it had to be interpreted in accordance with the Church's Teachings. This is what Augustine does in De Trinitate. This Book is not easy reading. It uses philosophical words and phrases that may cause initial confusion. But very clearly Augustine writes: Non amplius quam tria sunt; unus diligens eum qui de illo est, et unus diligens eum de quo est, et ipsa dilectio. (Lib. v1. cap.7.) It amazes me that Amazon makes the Writings of Augustine plus the Top Class Christian Writers available so cheaply. I think it is very important that Christians should be reading these Writers. The Christian Church today needs highly and well read Christians who are vocal and strong in defence of Christian Truth. Read the Masters to be inspired. Pre-Christian Thinkers also highly respected Truth. They said: Magna est veritas et praevalebit!!. Vale!Ignotus.
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On the Trinity edition by St Augustine of Hippo mod Paul A Boer Sr Rev Arthur West Haddan BD Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
As I write this review I realise that logic, reason and geometry may have their limitations and even be misleading when it comes to understanding the Trinity. if however we can rely on Geometry a slightly different understanding of the Trinity emerges. I would like here to give a Geometrical understanding of the Trinity... whether or not it is the True understanding of the Trinity. for the sake of knowledge, but I do not say truth.
firstly if one draws the geometry of a human face a circle containing a square, containing a triangle with a line across the centre of the triangle for a nose. and two dots in the square for eyes. one then has what I have called the homologon or hermologon. if one further adds a point above the nose, then joining all the angles and points one sees a figure seated on a throne. the hermologon is implicitly an image of an enthroned being.
the nose of the image is a triangle which yields no particular meaning when analysed on its own. however if placed under a geometrical eye it yields the meaning of the triangle which fundamentally is like unto three sharks or jesters, one in each corner of the triangle. I therefore know that the triangle as the most basic shape is also proabably the strongest and most dangerous. the triangle is like the snow lined mountain top, it is treacherous. like a sharks tooth.
the whole triangle within the face forms an upward facing eye and this eye looks towards the star above the nose. the upward facing eye is a trinity that gazes upon the point of the star above it which is a lonesome 1, without any partners whatsoever. the eye by virtue of seeing the star above "is" that star. for as the mystics say... what you see is what you are. it can therefore be said that the trinity is 1, because it sees the 1.
from my understanding of 1, in terms of Geometry using the eye symbol. analysing 1 it can be said that 1 is the union of male and female. the female being above the male and below the male. in analysis of the symbol 1 the female is above the male ultimately. though in 1 the male and female are 1.
1 can be symbolised by a vertical line or as a point. because a trinity gazes up upon a point it may be possible to say that actually we have a quaternity, if we add the 1 above to the 1 trinity beneath. we have a quaternity and yet we have 1 seeing 1. it is worth noting that the pythagoreans would have seen this as legitimate. so too the Academy of Plato above the entrance of which were carved in stone the words "let no one enter herein whom is ignorant of geometry."
when I talk of the eye... as seen from above the hermologon forms an eye (a circle within a circle with a point at the centre). in various cultures and philosophies the eye has often been seen as a symbol of God. the point of the eye symbolising intuition and the feeling of me/I/self. the first circle representing reason/word/intellect and the outer circle representing perception/seeing, hearing etc. And yet above this eye is 1, a star above. the north star or morning star which is simply 1.
Carl Jung in his book on Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious talks about Quarternity (4ness) as the symbol of completion and harmony and uses the analogy of a horse with three legs versus a horse with four legs. if we talk about fourness we must not lose sight of the fact that there are "three plus one" not simply four and yet a square could be used to express the holiness of fourness. implicitly however even a square is ultimately made up of triangles. triangles are made of two dimensional 'lines' and lines come down to joining points (1's) so everything as a shape comes back to 1. (the point).
though 1 is the ultimate form, there is a going beyond henosis, where the eye is eaten by the squirrel as an acorn, and the star above is swallowed as a pill. eventually there is nothing left but emptiness and yet reality is seen. all is empty and yet fully real. this is one of the things I like about zen. the emphasis on the absolute reality of everything and yet its emptiness. in Dogen Zenji's Genjokoan we are told that everything is 'absolute manifest reality' (Genjokoan). the mountains are once again mountains, and yet are fully empty. this is a paradox.
I hope this is helpful.
best wishes, tom.
On theTrinity helped me to understand better the things I needed to understand better. What a joy, I recommend for others
Update 6/14/2013 - The technical difficulties mentioned below were resolved when my kindle touch updated its software, and I increased my rating from 1 to 4 stars. I appreciate Paul Boer for making kindle editions of so many classics available for cheap.
I am giving this one star primarily because the "Go To" function, at least on my kindle touch, is inoperational. This is unforgivable in a lengthy work like this, where readers are unlikely to simply read it from beginning to end. I mitigated some of this inconvenience by bookmarking the table of contents, and I can navigate to the bookmark even though I can't "Go To" the table of contents. In addition, the footnotes are not linked, just added as regular text at the end of every chapter. Many of the chapters are short enough that it's not a big problem to navigate to the footnote and back to the text--but many aren't.
This edition is an 1872 translation by A.W. Haddan and contains an 1887 introductory essay by William G.T. Shedd. I am not qualified to comment on the quality of either, but the translation can certainly be clunky in places. Here's the first sentence of I.2
Wherefore, our Lord God helping, we will undertake to render, as far as we are able, that very account which they so importunately demand viz., that the Trinity is the one and only and true God, and also how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are rightly said, believed, understood, to be of one and the same substance or essence; in such wise that they may not fancy themselves mocked by excuses on our part, but may find by actual trial, both that the highest good is that which is discerned by the most purified minds, and that for this reason it cannot be discerned or understood by themselves, because the eye of the human mind, being weak, is dazzled in that so transcendent light, unless it be invigorated by the nourishment of the righteousness of faith.
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De Trinitate is at the peak of Christian thinking. It is also at the base of Christian Faith. The Christian virtue of Faith takes us beyond the realm of reason and even human intuition or human enlightenment. Augustine shows how the Trinity is revealed in the Sacred Scriptures. Augustine accepts the Sacred Scriptures because they have been authorised by the Catholic Church in its Synods. The Scripture used by Augustine was the Catholic Scripture and therefore it had to be interpreted in accordance with the Church's Teachings. This is what Augustine does in De Trinitate. This Book is not easy reading. It uses philosophical words and phrases that may cause initial confusion. But very clearly Augustine writes Non amplius quam tria sunt; unus diligens eum qui de illo est, et unus diligens eum de quo est, et ipsa dilectio. (Lib. v1. cap.7.) It amazes me that makes the Writings of Augustine plus the Top Class Christian Writers available so cheaply. I think it is very important that Christians should be reading these Writers. The Christian Church today needs highly and well read Christians who are vocal and strong in defence of Christian Truth. Read the Masters to be inspired. Pre-Christian Thinkers also highly respected Truth. They said Magna est veritas et praevalebit!!. Vale!
Ignotus.
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