On Interrogation, Introspection, Dialectic and the Ineluctable Polarity of Being and Knowing

Matthew W. Knotts teaches Theology at Loyola Academy, USA.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsGeneral Introduction1. Ephesian Resonances2. Building a Bridge: Heraclitus to Augustine3. Augustine and the Theo-log-ical Constitution of the Human Person4. The Methods of Augustinian Self-Constituion5. The Dialectical Self and the AbyssConcluding ThoughtsBibliographyIndex

Matthew Knotts alerts the reader to challenging aspects of being human in Augustine's dialectical approach to the pursuit of self-knowledge within God. He engages in a dialogue between Augustine, himself, and Heraclitus' openness for contradicting phenomena within the universe. In discussion with ‘the complete Augustinian overdetermined portrait of the self’, he explores in imaginative prose the bishop’s efforts to examine the abyss of the self and being human.