Appunti su alcuni aspetti giuridici e sociali della grazia in Agostino
This paper aims to highlight some juridical and social features of late Augustine’s doctrine of grace. The first section outlines some features of Confessions derived from the structure of rhetorical exordia as defined by both Cicero and Quintilian. However, the same confessio as admission of guilt...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/16345 |
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| Sumario: | This paper aims to highlight some juridical and social features of late Augustine’s doctrine of grace. The first section outlines some features of Confessions derived from the structure of rhetorical exordia as defined by both Cicero and Quintilian. However, the same confessio as admission of guilt turns the use of this classic rhetorical categories upside down, in order to praise God’s grace. So, Augustine develops a tension between the rhetoric of absolution and the confession of guilt in which is displayed the evolving role of divine grace in salvation. Grace is read according to categories of Roman law through classical sources such as Cicero, Quintilian and the Corpus iuris civilis (second section); then through Augustine’s works (third section), showing the dependence of his conceptual framework on the first ones. In the last section we will try to define how late Augustine’s theory of grace is bound to sociological considerations, whose urgency it is possible to perceive in the Pelagian debate. These considerations mirror the social implications of law-grace relation in Roman right. |
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