Influence of Augustine of Hippo on the Orthodox Church
Author: | Azkoul, Michael |
Year: | 1991 |
Pages: | 312 |
ISBN: | 0-88946-733-1 978-0-88946-733-0 |
Price: | $219.95 |
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Shows that Augustine created a "Greek-Christian synthesis" based on Neo-Platonism, which removes him from the Orthodox mind and the Patristic tradition. Argues that the theology of Augustine is not the apex of the Patristic tradition, but the beginning of a new one, and is incompatible with the theology of the Orthodox Church, with the difference between the two accounting in part for the separation of Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism.