August 28, 2006
-
Today’s Sinner:
Augustine of Hippo, who is said to
have died on this date in 430 A.D.
“He is, after all, not merely taking over a Neoplatonic ontology, but he is attempting to combine it with a scriptural tradition of a rather different sort, one wherein the divine attributes most prized in the Greek tradition (e.g. necessity, immutability, and atemporal eternity) must somehow be combined with the personal attributes (e.g. will, justice, and historical purpose) of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
– Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Augustine
Here is a rather different attempt
to combine the eternal with the temporal:
The Eternal
Symbol of necessity,
immutability, and
atemporal eternity:
For details, see
finite geometry of
the square and cube.
The Temporal
Symbol of the
God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob:
For details, see
Under God
(Aug. 11, 2006)
The eternal
combined with
the temporal:
Related material:
