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SUMMARY:In quo inquit\, adprehendam Dominum? Plotinian Ascent and Christia
 n Sacrifice in St Augustine’s The City of God 10. 1-7.  - James Lawson (
 Vice Principal and Charles Marriott Director of Pastoral Studies\, St Step
 hen’s House)
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DESCRIPTION:Pierre Hadot proposed that philosophical works from antiquity 
 should be approached with the idea of spiritual progress in mind. Even if 
 the work is apparently theoretical or systematic\, it was written to allow
  readers to traverse a certain itinerary which would allow them to make sp
 iritual progress. Studies which have approached the Confessions and De Tri
 nitate with this idea of spiritual progress in mind offer a new understand
 ing of their parallel conceptual and literary structures. A Christian reco
 nfiguration of the Plotinian ascent has been discovered in both works. I w
 ant to argue that the same procedure may also be perceived in Augustine’
 s response to the Platonists in Book 10 of De civitate Dei. Hadot’s appr
 oach discloses an unnoticed aspect of his argument about sacrifice in chap
 ters 1-7\, where Augustine engages with Platonic accounts of spiritual sac
 rifice to present his account of the sacrifice offered by Christians.\nSpe
 akers:\nJames Lawson (Vice Principal and Charles Marriott Director of Past
 oral Studies\, St Stephen’s House)
LOCATION:Pusey House (Ursell Room)
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ccedfc2b-7c32-4da7-95bf-c967d4b92a8d/
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DESCRIPTION:Talk:In quo inquit\, adprehendam Dominum? Plotinian Ascent and
  Christian Sacrifice in St Augustine’s The City of God 10. 1-7.  - James
  Lawson (Vice Principal and Charles Marriott Director of Pastoral Studies\
 , St Stephen’s House)
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