Mihi Quaestio Factus Sum ("I Have Become a Question to Myself", Augustine Confessions X.XXXIII): Fiction and Truth-Seeking in Theology

This article explores a suggested radical instability of knowing human persons - selves and others - and the perennial undecidability of claims about what may be true with respect to them, by employing the novels of Philip Roth and E. L. Doctorow. If persons fundamentally are construed as questions...

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Published in:Acta theologica
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Published: [2019]
In: Acta theologica
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430 / Christianity / Literature / Theology / Uncertainty / Truth
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