Seeing and Believing in Augustine’s «De videndo Deo»

The aim of my paper is to clarify the content and function of the distinction between seeing and believing stated by Augustine in his «De videndo deo». I try to achieve this in three steps. First, I briefly describe the genesis, the fundamental ideas and the structure of «De videndo deo». Second, I analyse in detail the distinction between seeing and believing put forward in the first part of Augustine’s text. Finally, I show the role that this distinction plays in the overall argument of «De videndo deo».