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Purified by a Principle? Augustine’s Conversion of Neo-Platonism
In City of God 10.24, as part of his analysis of and argument with Platonism and Neoplatonism, Augustine takes up the question of mediation–who mediates, and how–questions of some moment in previous and contemporary Platonist demonology, which made use of several levels of divine or semi-divine intermediaries in order to bridge the gap between the…
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The Hope of All the Earth
The One on whom we all depend has come in a particular place and time for all places and times – bringing both personal and communal redemption from guilt, shame, and fear – through faith, the forgiveness of sins, and transformation to love.