A Performative Reading of Augustine’s Doctrine of Predestination

Susannah Ticciati

A Performative Reading of Augustine’s Doctrine of Predestination

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This article will test whether Augustine's doctrine of predestination as set forth in his four late works to the monks of Hadrumetum and Marseilles can be read as a performative speech-act, according to the theory of speech-acts developed by J.L. Austin. More precisely, it will ask after the illocutionary force of the doctrine, suggesting that it is not best regarded as an act of stating, as it has customarily been understood, but involves something more like acts of exhorting and promising. And therefore it is not best appraised according to its truth or falsity, but according to its appropriateness as encouragement to its recipients

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studia Patristica
Subtitle of host publication	Vol LII, Including papers presented at the British Patristics Conference, Durham, September 2010
Publisher	Peeters
Pages	211-234
Number of pages	24
Volume	52
ISBN (Print)	978-90-429-2590-8
Publication status	Published - 2011

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A Performative Reading of Augustine’s Doctrine of Predestination

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