Outward Signs —— The Powerlessness of External Things in Augustine's Thought

----- 外在迹象：奥古斯丁的思想外界事物的无力感

ISBN: 9780195336498 出版年：2008 页码：369 Cary, Phillip Oxford University Press

INTRODUCTION: EXPRESSIONIST SEMIOTICS AND THE POWERLESSNESS OF THE EXTERNAL PART I: WORDS FROM WHICH WE LEARN NOTHING 1. Before Words were Signs: Semiotics in Greek Philosophy 2. From Skepticism to Platonism: The Concept of Sign in Augustine's Earliest Writings 3. How Words Became Signs: The Development of Augustine's Expressionist Semiotics 4. Why We Learn Nothing from Words: The Epistemology of Augustine's Semiotics 5. Believing Persons: Theological Implications of Augustine's Semiotics PART II: POWERLESS SACRAMENTS 6. Sacred Signs of Inner Unity: Augustine and Medieval Sacramental Theology 7. The Efficacy of the Church's Baptism: Against Donatists and Pelagians 8. New Testament Sacraments and the Flesh of Christ CONCLUSION