New Dissertation Spotlight on #ancientjewreview! Alexander Pierce writes about the concept of “sacramentum” within the works of Augustine @histodons @religion #lateantiquity #Augustine #EarlyChristian #earlychristianity https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/3/22/augustines-latin-christian-synthesis
Augustine’s Latin Christian Synthesis — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Augustine drew on the central Christian idea of sacramentum —a technical but expansive concept indicating the mysterious conjoining of the sensible to the intelligible, the human to the divine—to produce a unified theory of existence that stands in contrast to the dualisms of his time.