ABSTRACT

Johannes van Oort claims that Augustine has an irreconcilable ‘two-fold ecclesiology,’ which separates the inwardness of unseen individual grace from the external empirical community. Efforts to unify Augustine’s ‘two-fold ecclesiology’ have hitherto focused on emphasizing the continuity between the invisible and the visible, the locus for which is often the manifestation of individual (invisible) grace in the context of the (visible) community. The present article brackets the debate about grace and the power of signs and focuses instead on the relationship between the individual and the community, broadly and loosely construed. Accordingly, the question arises, what is the relationship between individual and community? It is our conviction that drawing dichotomies between the individual and community, between the invisible and the visible, is unwarranted and in fact proves detrimental to understanding Augustine’s comprehensive approach to ecclesiology. By proposing a holistic approach to Augustine’s ecclesiology instead, we seek to accord community its central place in the Church as the culmination of individuality and vice-versa. In this way, we opt for an approach that reconciles Augustine’s ‘two-fold ecclesiology’.

摘要

约翰内斯·范·奥尔特（Johannes van Oort）声称，奥古斯丁具有不可调和的“双重教会学”，这将看不见的个人恩典的内在性与外部实证界分开了。迄今为止，统一奥古斯丁的“双重教会哲学”的努力一直集中在强调无形与有形之间的连续性，其所在的位置通常是（有形）社区背景下个人（无形）恩典的体现。本文将关于恩典和标志的力量的辩论放在了括号内，而侧重于广义和松散地解释的个人与社区之间的关系。因此，出现了一个问题，个人与社区之间是什么关系？我们坚信，在个人与社区之间，在看不见的与可见的之间绘制二分法，毫无根据，实际上证明对理解奥古斯丁的教会学综合方法有害。通过提出一种对奥古斯丁教会哲学的整体方法，我们寻求使社区在教会中的中心地位成为个性的最终体现，反之亦然。通过这种方式，我们选择了一种使奥古斯丁的“双重教会论”协调一致的方法。