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According to St Augustine (354-430), the goal of man, and thus of human culture, is happiness (eudaimonia), which, according to the Christian revelation, can be attained on the supernatural level of life at God. Therefore, it cannot be directly achieved by science, not even by the knowledge of the Holy Scripture. The Bishop of Hippo seeks to resolve this epistemological tension in his biblical research in his work De doctrina christiana by setting out the steps of spiritual ascent, which will also help him to define more precisely the meaning of his present scientific and literary enterprise. In order to lead us to the true, spiritual meaning of the Scripture, the Bishop of Hippo is able to relativise partially even his own scientific aspects. The true content of the Bible can be revealed only in this spiritual freedom, so that science does not swell us with pride but builds up our love (cf. 1Cor 8:1).
The purpose of this short study is to give a closer look at how the stages of the spiritual life are defined by Augustine, the great master of the spiritual life and researcher of the Scripture. After a closer look at the role of this excursus in De doctrina christiana, we would like to discuss the particularities of the ladder of spiritual ascent he set up, mainly in comparison with his early work De quantitate animae, and finally we would like to conclude it with the Augustinian evaluation of the Bible as a scientific source.
Augustinus (ca. 426/1963), De doctr. chr., II,6,7 (CCSL 32, 35).
Augustinus (ca. 426/1963), De doctr. chr., II,6,8 (CCSL 32, 36).
Aregorius Magnus (ca. 591/1979), Moralia in Iob. Epistola missoria, 4 (CCSL 143, 36).
Saját fordítás.
Uo., II,7,9-11 (CCSL 32, 36-38).
Augustinus (ca. 394/1967), De ser. Dom. in monte, I,4,11 (CCSL 35); Augustinus (ca.
/1865), Ser., 347,2 (PL 39, 1524-1526).
Augustinus (ca. 388/1986), De quan. a., 33,70-76 (CSEL 89, 217-225).
Augustinus (ca. 426/1963), De doctr. chr., II,7,9 (CCSL 32, 36-37).
Augustinus (ca. 426/1963), De doctr. chr., II,7,10 (CCSL 32, 37); Augustinus (ca.
/1986), De quan. a., 33,72 (CSEL 89,220).
Augustinus (ca. 426/1963), De doctr. chr., II,7,10 (CCSL 32, 37).
Augustinus (ca. 388/1986), De quan. a., 33,73 (CSEL 89, 220-222).; Augustinus (ca.
/1963), De doctr. chr., II,7,10 (CCSL 32, 37).
Augustinus (ca. 388/1986), De quan. a., 33,73 (CSEL 89, 220-222).
Uo., 33,74 (CSEL 89, 222).
Augustinus (ca. 426/1963), De doctr. chr., II,7,11 (CCSL 32, 37-38).
Uo.; Augustinus (ca. 388/1986), De quan. a., 33,74 (CSEL 89, 222).
Uo., 33, 76 (CSEL 89, 223-225); Augustinus (ca. 426/1963), De doctr. chr., II,7,11 (CCSL
, 38).
Augustinus (ca. 388/1986), De quan. a., 33,75 (CSEL 89, 222-223); Augustinus (ca.
/1963), De doctr. chr., II,7,11 (CCSL 32, 38).
Augustinus (ca. 401/1896), Conf., XIII,36,51-38,53 (CSEL 33, 387-388).
Augustinus (ca. 426/1963), De doctr. chr., II,7,10 (CCSL 32, 37); 8,12 (CCSL 32, 38).
Uo., II,16,23-42,63 (CCSL 32, 48-77).
