By bringing recent developments in Augustine scholarship into conversation with modern Orthodox criticisms of Augustine, this article challenges the polemical Orthodox claim that Augustinian pneumatology logically undermines the doctrine of theosis. Indeed, in Augustine's own case, I argue that just the opposite is true: Augustine's “filioquist” pneumatology is precisely what leads him, ahead of his contemporaries, to advance a robustly ecclesial and trinitarian account of deification. Augustine should therefore be seen not as an opponent but as a crucial conversation partner for Orthodox theology, addressing in advance many of the ecclesiological and trinitarian questions with which the latter has engaged in recent centuries.

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Filioque、Theosis 和 Ecclesia : 奥古斯丁与现代正统神学的对话

通过将奥古斯丁学术的最新发展与现代东正教对奥古斯丁的批评进行对话，本文挑战了正统论断的争论，即奥古斯丁的气动学在逻辑上破坏了神论学说。事实上，在奥古斯丁自己的案例中，我认为恰恰相反：奥古斯丁的“filioquist”pneumatology 正是引导他在他的同时代人之前提出强有力的教会和三位一体神化解释的原因。因此，奥古斯丁不应被视为正统神学的对手，而应被视为正统神学的重要对话伙伴，提前解决了后者近几个世纪以来所涉及的许多教会学和三位一体论问题。