“The mind itself, its love [of itself] and its knowledge [of itself] are a kind of trinity.”
Aurelius Augustinus On the Trinity
(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 4, Section 4, p. 27
On the Trinity (417)
Quotes from workOn the Trinity
Aurelius AugustinusOriginal title De Trinitate (Latin)
On the Trinity is a Latin book written by Augustine of Hippo to discuss the Trinity in context of the logos. Although not as well known as some of his other works, it is arguably his masterpiece and of more doctrinal importance than the Confessions or City of God.It is placed by him in his Retractationes among the works written in AD 400. In letters of 410 and 414 and at the end of 415, it is referred to as still unfinished and unpublished. But a letter of 412 states that friends were at that time asking to complete and publish it, and the letter to Aurelius, which was sent with the treatise itself when actually completed, states that a portion of it, while still unrevised and incomplete, was in fact surreptitiously made public. It was still in hand in 416: in Book XIII, a quotation occurs from the 12th Book of the De Civitate Dei; and another quotation in Book XV, from the 90th lecture on Saint John.
Aurelius Augustinus On the Trinity
(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 2, Section 2, p. 26
On the Trinity (417)
