La revelación de la Trinidad inmanente en los Tractatus in lohannem de san Agustín

Abstract

Against the hypothesis that Saint Augustin had attributed to pagan philosophers knowledge of the divine Trinity, thus admitting the possibility of knowing the Trinity without the Incarnation, this study shows firstly how the Bishop of Hippo had distinguished the idea of God the Father, both in the philosophers and in the Old Testament, from the idea of God, the Father of Jesus Christ. Secondly it shows how the author of the tractatus expouds on the passages in which the Evangelist speaks of the revelation of the Father on the part of Christ, in such a way as to highlight the specific nature of the Christian knowledge of God.