This book deals with the relationship between initial creation and historical re-creation in
the works of Augustine of Hippo. It begins with a detailed study of Augustine's concept of
articulation important in his considerations of speech writing history and epistemology. By
charting the way Augustine articulates the arguments of discursive reason in the study of the
liberal arts and in notional explication a general scheme for the thematic articulation of
heuristic intentions is established. This scheme is then applied both to Augustine's
interpretation of the first creation account of Genesis and to his description of the
experience of kerygmatic proclamation. Due to this common articulated structure
evangelisation can be understood as the on-going completion of creation narrative within
salvation history.
