Lineaments of Trinitarian Ontology in Augustine

Abstract

The objective of this essay is to find the unity of St. Augustine’s thought. All his philosophy, from anthropology to the definition of the person, from the doctrine of memory to the different forms of knowledge, from the philosophy of language to hermeneutics, from the doctrine of interiority to that of relations, from ethics to history, it finds in the trinitary idea the unifying element. This treatise is divided into two parts: in the former the sources of St. Augustine’s thought are found in the latter his trinitary theology is expressed. What emerges is a trinitary ontology, a synthesis of faith and reason, theology and philosophy: the trinitary revelation in the creation and incarnation of the Verb gives reason of a reflected rationality in the model, a trinitary ontology of the person with a theology of the trinitary Being.