On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1:
Normativity in De Magistro

Chapter 2:
Truth-Seeking in Confessions

Chapter 3:
Christ in Enarrationes in Psalmos

Conclusion
Index

About the author

Dr. Susannah Ticciati is Professor of Christian Theology at King's College London.

Summary

Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to address the question of truth in the public sphere. In the face of the degeneration of public normative discourse, the book finds in Augustine the resources for the repair of a series of (post)modern oppositions, making way for a rehabilitation of public normativity.

The book discovers in Augustine a truth that is at once inward and public. It is a truth which both scriptural author and interpreter, prompted by the words of Scripture, seek in common. It is a truth which Christ speaks on behalf of others, and which others in turn are liberated to speak in Christ.

Through Augustine, Ticciati offers a scriptural hermeneutic that overcomes a false opposition between modern and postmodern modes of reading, and arrives at a Christologically informed vision of coinherence rather than inclusion, of substitutionary rather than tokenist representation, and of cosmic rather than colonial breadth.

Foreword

Explores Augustine's scriptural interpretation and examines the ways in which he handles biblical signs in practice.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Susannah (King's College London Ticciati, Susannah Ticciati, TICCIATI SUSANNAH
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780567682857
• ISBN: 978-0-567-68285-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Reading Augustine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion