Métamorphoses du thème du retour de l’âme du De Regressu de Porphyre au livre X du De civitate Dei

Abstract

Book 10 of the City of God is the main source about Porphyry’s On the return of the soul, but it can also be read as an Augustinian treatise On the return of the soul in which discussing with Porphyry gives Augustine the opportunity to take hold on the Platonic pattern of the return of the soul to give of it a new conception, enlarged and compatible with Christian thought.

Keywords

• Platonism and Christianity
• Porphyry
• theurgy
• return of the soul
• sacrifice