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Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to address the question of truth in the public sphere. In the face of the degeneration of public normative discourse, the book finds in Augustine the resources for the repair of a series of (post)modern oppositions, making way for a rehabilitation of public normativity. The book discovers in Augustine a truth that is at once inward and public. It is a truth which both scriptural author and interpreter, prompted by the words of Scripture, seek in common. It is a truth which Christ speaks on behalf of others, and which others in turn are liberated to speak in Christ. Through Augustine, Ticciati offers a scriptural hermeneutic that overcomes a false opposition between modern and postmodern modes of reading, and arrives at a Christologically informed vision of coinherence rather than inclusion, of substitutionary rather than tokenist representation, and of cosmic rather than colonial breadth.

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On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture conducts judicious, insightful, and valuably corrective analysis both of truth-seeking in De magistro (The Teacher) and of scriptural hermeneutics in Confessions… This book should be of interest not only to patristics scholars and historical theologians (esp. regarding divine illumination and scriptural hermeneutics), but also biblical scholars, philosophers of mind, epistemologists, and those troubled by the current state of academic and public discourse more broadly. -- E.S. Kempson, Durham University, UK * Studies in Christian Ethics *

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Susannah Ticciati is Professor of Christian Theology at King’s College London, UK.

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