
HoP 116 - Charles Brittain on Augustine's On the Trinity
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Theology and Philosophy: A Complicated Book
The book itself is a three and one, the first part where he goes through the Bible sounds like it's more like a scriptural exegetical work. And then maybe the section on relations and then the last part about the human mind sounds something more like a philosophical work. It never struck me until now that I'm sure that that's how Augustine was structuring that he had the image in mind when he was structuring the book. That seemed to me to actually capture something about the relation between the three parts as Augustine might have seen it.
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