Tension and Affinity Between Discourse Forms and Faith Profession in Paradise by Ambrose of Milan

MIRANDA, LIDIA RAQUEL

París

Congreso; Congrès international de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales; 2012

Analytrics

Paradise by Ambrose of Milan has two expositive levels, dialectic and allegorical. Dialectic part depends on Comentarii in Genesim by Origin and Legum Allegoriae by Fhilo of Alexandria. Concerned with allegorical interpretation, it follows Philo in that work and in Quaestiones et solutiones in Genesim. The aim of this paper is to analyze the significant function of the articulation between those discursive forms on modality of faith profession and its consequences on theological message. In spite of the lack of harmony between the two exegetical systems, the configuration of them in the whole work falls into the way of interpretation and, then, into the vision of human reality that it abridges. The research uses the text in original language (latin) and also annotated translations. The study is based on philological and semantic analysis of lexical an discursive elements that allow a critical evaluation.