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    "Mira profunditas eloquiorum tuorum". Agostino interprete dei primi versetti della Genesi nelle "Confessiones" e nel "De Genesi ad litteram"

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    The paper provides a thorough and extensive analysis of the interpretations of Gen I, 1-2b formulated and discussed in the Confessions (book XII) and in the De Genesi ad litteram (book I). The investigation aims at bringing out both the logic underlying Augustine's argumentation and its conformity with the hermeneutic pluralism programmatically theorized in these two works

    Miracolo, natura e "rationes causales". Il libro III del "De trinitate" e i libri VI e IX del "De Genesi ad litteram"

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    In "De trinitate" III and "De Genesi ad litteram" VI Augustine considers miracles as a result of the action of causal reasons originally placed by God in physical elements. On the contrary, in "De Genesi ad litteram" IX Augustine underlines miracle's dependence on other causal reasons not involved in creation, but hidden in God's will. This paper attemps a reconciliation of these two different accounts, showing that Augustine, by suggesting a model of cooperation between divine and created causalities, theorizes a solid and, at the same time, hierarchically structured notion of nature

    Provare per credere: lo sguardo di Agostino sul rapporto tra esegesi e "scienza"

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    In dialogo con la recente monografia di M. Pera, intitolata "Lo sguardo della caduta. Agostino e la superbia del secolarismo" (2022), l'articolo intende analizzare la concezione agostiniana del rapporto tra esgesi biblica e scienza della natura. Dall'analisi dei testi emerge come la riflessione agostiniana differisca significativamente da quella che, nella modernità, sarà la posizione di Galileo. Allo stesso tempo, tuttavia, la ricerca svolta intende mostrare che e perché non sia corretto attribuire ad Agostino la teorizzazione di una priorità o superiorità della rivelazione biblica sulla ricerca scientifica in relazione al grado di verità delle conoscenze raggiunte intorno al mondo naturale

    Il concetto di materia nei commentari alla Genesi di Agostino

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    One of the most important concepts in Augustine’s philosophy of creation is surely that of matter. Nevertheless, a monographic study specifically dedicated to the concept of matter has not yet been published. Purpose of the thesis is at least partially to fill this gap, considering all the text of the commentaries on Genesis (De Genesi contra Manichaeos, De Genesi ad litteram imperfectus, Confessiones (XI-XIII), De Genesi ad litteram) in which Augustine employs the Latin terms “materia” and “materies”. These texts have been translated and analyzed from a lexical and an historical-philosophical point of view. A wide section is also devoted do the study of the employment of the concept of matter in the philosophical and patristic tradition. The thesis deals with the main exegetical, ontological, epistemological and ethical issues related to Augustine’s conception of matter. What emerges from this study is that Augustine draws up a consistent theory of matter. He deepens and constantly specifies his doctrine, in which the theoretical elements derived from the philosophical tradition are originally combined
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