QUESTIONING A PENAL VIEW OF HISTORY
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Augustine
History
Penal view

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Silva Rosa, J. M. (2022). QUESTIONING A PENAL VIEW OF HISTORY. Journal of Teleological Science, 2, 36–51. https://doi.org/10.59079/jts.v1i1.179

Abstract

If, as St. Augustine suggests, the poematic conception of time as distentio animi that we find in the famous passage from book XI of Confessions (I will sing a song that I have learned by heart... / dicturus sum canticum, quod novi) can be amplified and applied to the entire history of the sons of men, as Augustine himself immediately suggests to us — “[... ] And what happens in the canticle in its entirety, happens in each of its parts and in each of its syllables; it also happens in a longer action, of which, perhaps, that canticle is a small part; it also happens in the life of man, in its entirety, of which all his actions are parts; this very thing happens in all the generations of mankind, of which all the lives of men are a part.” — such a change and widening of scale has serious consequences as far as the constitution of a Theology of History is concerned. 

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