Undoubtedly you have different treatments in mind that you consider better models than your own exegesis, I understand that - just realize why this sounds weak as a defense of your own position
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AristotradX4 and
It is worth actually reading the “philosophical” parts of Augustine carefully b/c it makes the distinction between Christian doctrine and Christian philosophy v clear
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The whole point is that there can't really be a "Christian" philosophy. There can be philosophies which Christians can (at least in parts) accept, but a "Christian adaptation of, say, Plato is spurious. It's attempting to reconcile systems that God tells us not to reconcile
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lol, there is. when Augustine is asking doctrinal questions, he focuses on Bible. But accepting Biblical doctrine gives him (Christian) opinions on certain matters. Now when he goes to ask *philosophical* questions, what happens?
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AristotradX4 and
Augustine didn’t think the Bible was a philosophy handbook of course. He has a letter or sermon condemning ppl who bring ridicule upon the Church by acting as though the articles of faith give them technical expertise on q’s astronomy, etc
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AristotradX4 and
But he still does have faith in the truth of the doctrine the Gospel *does* contain, and those truths can in effect serve as axioms for philosophical inquiry
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AristotradX4 and
You say he’s a platonist and elsewhere imply he fell afoul of Paul’s strictures on pagan vanity
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AristotradX4 and
But he wasn’t a platonist. Augustine’s philosophy is bizarre. His answers to a number of phil. questions are simply unique (well, him and Tertullian)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AristotradX4 and
Augustine’s philosophy has made Christian scholars a little nervous ever since because they can see that yes, his stuff is more consistent with the literal sense of Gospel than any alternative It’s also CRAZY
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AristotradX4 and
If there was ever proof that any Christian ever put faith first and then built a philosophical system around it, it’s stuff like transduction of the soul
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Understanding that will help clarify your sense of the difference between exegesis and philosophizing
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