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St. Augustine: The Principle of Charity, The Gift of Multiple Meanings, and Scriptura ex Scriptura explicanda est
2 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen February 2nd, 2008 in Augustine, Biblical HermeneuticsAs I have highlighted on numerous occasions on this blog, St. Augustine is perfectly content with the idea that Scripture has multiple true meanings and that these meanings can and do go beyond the mind of the human writers of Scripture (cf. Confessions XII and Augustine’s discussions on the possible true meanings of Gen 1:1). [...]
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