Augustine`s Early Theology of Image A Study in the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Hilary of Poitiers ...........19 Image in the Anti-Monarchian Writings ..........20 Hilary`s Development of Anti-Monarchian Image theology .........31 Hilary`s Image theology in the Nicene context ....36 Image as a Christological Term ............39 Image as an Anthropological Term ..........46 2. Marius victoinus .........51 Substance and Image : Aristotle`s Legacy .........52 Christ as Imago Dei ..........64 The human Person Secundum Imaginem .............72 3. Ambrose of Milan .....87 The Imago dei as a Spiritual Reality ....89 The Embodies Imago........102 The moral imperative of the Imago Dei ......112 4. The plotinian Image .............135 Participatio, Imago, Similitudo ........136 Proteus and Participation ...............165 6. The Analogical and Embodied Imago Dei ..............189 7. The Ascent of the Image in De vera Religione ..........224 The plotinian metaphysic of Image ........228 Intellectual and moral Obstacles to the Ascent of the Image .......234