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Article: Torchia, N. Joseph. "Creatio ex nihilo" and the Theology of St. Augustine: the Anti-Manichaean Polemic and Beyond.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- September 1, 2002
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American University Studies, vol. 205. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. xxv + 279 pp. Cloth, $49.95--Emerson once referred to Swedenborg as "one of the missouriums and mastodons of literature." These terms could with far more truth and less banality be applied to St. Augustine. His thought is overwhelming, as is the amount of literature he has generated. A wealth of studies has been published in the past half-century, some of exceptional value such as those of Peter Brown, John O'Meara, Jean Pepin, and Eugene Portalie.
Professor Torchia's book is a new and welcome addition to the literature, although it cannot be numbered among the exceptional. He has provided a study ...