Abstract

The article deals with the evolution of the idea of God in St. Augustine, analyzing the text of ord. 1,1,2, stressing the answer that Augustine gives to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and Neoplatonist, and comparing the text with Enneads III,2,1. It also discusses St. Augustine’s arguments about the existence of God developed in lib. arb. Finally it focuses on St. Augustine’s commentaries on Ex 3:13-15, underlining the two names of God, the nomen æternitatis and the nomen misericordiæ.

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