Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

(iii) justification (2.6). The material discussed above is sufficient to show how the Greco-Roman terminology of recognitive kno ...

Latinagnitiooverlaps withrecognitio.^21 It is theologically interesting, however, thatRecognitionsalso speaks of knowing God asa ...

and 8, 61:2).^23 The so-called True Prophet, Jesus Christ, has imparted a certain simple knowledge to modest people: For the kno ...

good God; yea, even with those who hate and persecute them: for they know that ignorance is the cause of their sin. (Rec.6, 5:2– ...

same time, this concept is relatively independent of its Pauline back- ground, emphasizing various activities that this concept ...

something new, and the New Testament idea of a mutually commit- ted interaction between God and humanity. In Recognitions, the P ...

In sum, Latin theology has a distinctive concept and conception of religious recognition around 400CE. We will see in the succee ...

The Manicheans have supposed that the Lord Christ is that sun which is visible to carnal eyes, exposed and public to be seen, no ...

knowledge of faith and transformative renewal. As inRecognitions, the act of upward recognition is accompanied by changes in one ...

new understanding and attaches the person to a new group. For Augustine, agnitioremains a fairly subjective event that cannot re ...

which are contained in the memory even when they are not being thought about (non cogitentur).^38 In this manner, a man is said ...

others, or, to use other terms to cover the same phenomena, appropri- ation and allegiance. In everyday Latin,commendomeans, not ...

attach and appropriate this animal to itself (ipsum sibi conciliari et commendari). In this act of self-commendation, the animal ...

defends a kind of autonomy, it also assumes intersubjectivity and a basic relationality in the constitution of the self. It is a ...

involved. As the commendation ceremony expresses submission and ‘homage’done to the Lord, it manifests the proper codes of honou ...

Lord, and the Christian is attached to God. The attachment is nor- mally thought to be reciprocal: God loves God’s people, and t ...

hitherto said must be understood.‘If my breasts exhale this sweet perfume,’she says,‘if they are so attractive, it is not becaus ...

fragrance is an act of upward recognition. The fragrance witnesses the gift or benefit that the bridegroom has granted to the br ...

recognize in yourself (recognosco in temetipso) any share in the happiness of the bride?’^69 Here too, an effective transformati ...

ofagnoscoas subjective attachment. This attachment appears fre- quently in terms of ownership. Acquiring self-knowledge (cogniti ...