Sunday, April 23, 2006
(3:44 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Old Time Religion: Your Sunday Latin
From Augustine, De Trinitate, VII.4.9:Quid igitur restat? An ut fateamur loquendi necessitate parta haec vocabula cum opus esset copiosa disputatione adversus insidias vel errores haereticorum?The context is that he is trying to decide why the Fathers used the terms ousia and hypostasis (or in Latin essentia and substantia or persona), and he's running out of ideas. I'm having trouble figuring out what goes with what here, although the basic meaning is pretty clear.
Of necessity, this is probably going to be a weekly series until the Augustine class is over.
