Title:	The Trinity and Creation in Augustine
Authors:	A. Dunham, Scott Harold Coward
Keywords:	Creation—History of doctrines
Issue Date:	2008
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Description:	This book is concerned with how a signifi cant Christian thinker in the later patristic period understood the relationship between God and the creation. Augustine of Hippo exercised an enormous infl uence on the Christian tradition in the Western world. However, modern assessments have been mixed concerning the ways in which his infl uence ought to be evaluated. It would seem that a large contingent of modern scholars have tended to see that infl uence in a negative light, owing to both Augustine’s conception of God and his view of the world. To many scholars, Augustine’s conception of God is one that became detached from the spirit of the Nicene discussion about God’s triunity and moved to a more Platonic and monistic conception of a God who rules over a world that—because of its material composition—is bad. Such a God, of pure will and power, has nothing positive to do with a fallen, material world. As Colin Gunton puts it, “[I]n Augustine’s theology of creation . . . the Christological element plays little substantive role, and the pneumatological even less. The result is that the way is laid open for a conception of creation as the outcome of arbitrary will [of the Father]. . . .”1
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/72948
ISBN:	978-0-7914-7523-2 State University of New York Press
Appears in Collections:	History

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