Augustine's time of death in City of God 13
| dc.contributor.author | Hannan, Sean | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-31T01:15:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-31T01:15:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | "Only a living person can be a dying one," writes Augustine in De ciuitate dei 13.9. For Augustine, this strange fact offers us an occasion for reflection. If we are indeed racing toward the end on a cursus ad mortem, when do we pass the finish line? A living person is "in life" (in uita), while a dead one is post mortem. But as ciu. 13.11 asks: is anyone ever in morte, "in death?" This question must be asked alongside an earlier one, which had motivated Augustine's struggle in Confessiones 11.14.17 to make sense of time from the very beginning: quid est enim tempus? What is at stake here is whether or not there is such a thing as an instant of death: a moment when someone is no longer alive but not yet dead, a moment when they are "dying" (moriens) in the present tense. If we want to understand Augustine's question about the time of death in ciu. 13, then we have to frame it in terms of the interrogation of time proper in conf. 11. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://library.macewan.ca/full-record/a9h/134739772 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hannan, Sean. “Augustine’s Time of Death in City of God 13.” Augustinian Studies 50, no. 1 (January 2019): 43–63. doi:10.5840/augstudies2018101047. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies2018101047 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/1896 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | Augustine of Hippo | |
| dc.subject | Saint Augustine | |
| dc.subject | death | |
| dc.subject | City of God | |
| dc.subject | time of death | |
| dc.subject | De ciuitate dei | |
| dc.subject | Christianity | |
| dc.title | Augustine's time of death in City of God 13 | en |
| dc.type | Article |