Breves notas sobre a mística agostiniana

Abstract

I addition to the fact that Augustine never wrote specifically about mysticism, wemay consider, for instance, the absence in Augustine's time of a systematic character concept of the infused prayer effects which will shape the later Mystical Theology. However, such effects seem to influence the terms used by Augustine: overly an indicative sign of the philosophical, intellectual, and Neoplatonic influence, which leads to a criticism about the similarity of his narrations to the religious experiences described by the mystics themselves, according to the later Christian tradition. This work presents a brief introduction regarding Augustine as a master of Western mysticism, giving it a new Latin and genuinely Christian expression of the Neoplatonic contemplation conceptual structure.