Susannah Ticciati
Biographic Data
| ID | 2173723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susannah Ticciati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Ticciati |
| SIGNATURE | TICCIATI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fallible Commitment
This article draws on Augustine’s De trinitate to articulate a logic of fallibilist commitment. It speaks into the wider context of twenty-first century religious pluralism, focusing as a test case on Christian post-supersessionism, in which the problem of fallible commitment emerges for the Christian who seeks, in response to her Jewish co-traditionalists, to repair her own tradition in respect of its long-entrenched supersessionism (the family …
Becoming Black
This article compares and contrasts James Cone’s use of “blackness” with Karl Barth’s use of “Israel”. It argues that, by contrast with Barth’s overdetermined use of “Israel” as a fixed designator for a fixed people, “black” for Cone is a deliberately mobile designator, shifting (roughly) between skin colour, ancestry and cultural heritage, and political and theological disposition. It thus has the requisite suppleness to enable Cone’s theology t…
God, Evil and the Limits of Theology by KarenKilby (London
Domains, Normativity, and Normativity Across Domains
How is it possible for members of different and conflicting religious traditions to engage amicably with one another without bracketing their deepest religious commitments? Ochs’s account of the practice and philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning provides an answer to this question in terms of a logic of normative engagement across traditional borders distinct but not separate from the normative decision-making that takes place within particular trad…
Wellness in the Light of the Eschaton
This article considers wellness in terms of creaturely integrity, asking how the latter might be reconceived in the light of the eschaton. To that end, it draws on Augustine’s eschatological reading of the Psalms in his Enarrationes in Psalmos . It suggests that an eschatological vision reveals the “wholes” we habitually seek to be only partial wholes, which have a tendency to become “totalizing wholes.” Having offered an account of Augustine’s t…
Jewish-Christian dialogue
Doctrine in a radically apophatic register
This article develops an account of doctrine that seeks to reconceive the nature of doctrinal reference within the context of human transformation. It sets out from Augustine's advice to the preacher of the doctrine of predestination, discovering three layers of doctrinal interpretation, rooted in and geared towards transformation. Augustine's advice is applied generally to suggest that the role of doctrine is to ward off general classification i…
Response to Mike Higton
The Scriptural Logic of Barmen and the Jewish Question
The Human Being as Sign in Augustine’s De doctrina christiana
This article offers an interpretation of Augustine's De doctrina christiana I-II.5.6, which brings contemporary semiotic theory into dialogue with Augustinian theology in order to flesh out Augustine's incipient semiotic theological anthropology. The argument focuses on the interrelation between Augustine's two seminal distinctions, between signum and res, and between uti and frui, reading the first (semiotic) distinction in the light of the seco…
A New Apophaticism
In A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. Shifting the focus away from the potential and failure of words to say something about God, the book suggests that the purpose of God-language is to transform human beings in their relationship with God. Augustine's doctrine of predestination is read, with the help of speech-act theory and the study of indexicals, for its powe…
Reading Augustine Through Job
In this article I argue that Augustine's four late works against the so‐called “Semi‐Pelagians” can be read creatively and reparatively alongside the book of Job. Specifically, Augustine's frequent appeals to the inscrutability of God's judgment can be compared with God's speeches to Job out of the whirlwind. Having shown how the latter operate “indexically”, I will return to Augustine to highlight signs of indexicality throughout his four works.…
Augustine and Grace Ex Nihilo
The Theology of the Book of Genesis
The Castration of Signs
This article takes as its starting point Nicholas Lash's use of the Buberian distinction between the basic words “I‐It” and “I‐You” to address the question of how the difference between God and creation is “displayed” within the world. Drawing on a rather different discourse—the semiotics developed by Augustine in the distinctions he makes between sign and thing, use and enjoyment—it seeks to explore the concrete shape that might be taken by prac…
Scriptural Reasoning and the Formation of Identity
This essay seeks to give a Christian rationale for the practice of Scriptural Reasoning by exploring how it might constitute a locus for the formation of Christian identity. It argues for an understanding of the universality of the Christian biblical story, not in terms of conceptual resolution, according to which all others are inscribed into its universe, but in terms of its call to transformation and conversion—engendered, first and foremost, …
Does Job Fear God for Naught
This article offers an interpretation of the book of Job which construes its principle agenda to be a tackling of the problem of obedience. Focusing on Job 9 and its legal terminology, it explores the dynamic of Job's integrity as that which emerges in the process of his wrestling with the law: while it transcends the law, it cannot exist apart from this process. From this a historical account of obedience is developed which can be reduced to nei…
Job and the Disruption of Identity
A New Apophaticism
In A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. Shifting the focus away from the potential and failure of words to say something about God, the book suggests that the purpose of God-language is to transform human beings in their relationship with God. Augustine's doctrine of predestination is read, with the help of speech-act theory and the study of indexicals, for its powe…
Does Job Fear God for Naught
This article offers an interpretation of the book of Job which construes its principle agenda to be a tackling of the problem of obedience. Focusing on Job 9 and its legal terminology, it explores the dynamic of Job's integrity as that which emerges in the process of his wrestling with the law: while it transcends the law, it cannot exist apart from this process. From this a historical account of obedience is developed which can be reduced to nei…
Job and the Disruption of Identity
Scriptural Reasoning and the Formation of Identity
This essay seeks to give a Christian rationale for the practice of Scriptural Reasoning by exploring how it might constitute a locus for the formation of Christian identity. It argues for an understanding of the universality of the Christian biblical story, not in terms of conceptual resolution, according to which all others are inscribed into its universe, but in terms of its call to transformation and conversion—engendered, first and foremost, …
The Castration of Signs
This article takes as its starting point Nicholas Lash's use of the Buberian distinction between the basic words “I‐It” and “I‐You” to address the question of how the difference between God and creation is “displayed” within the world. Drawing on a rather different discourse—the semiotics developed by Augustine in the distinctions he makes between sign and thing, use and enjoyment—it seeks to explore the concrete shape that might be taken by prac…
Augustine and Grace Ex Nihilo
The Theology of the Book of Genesis
Reading Augustine Through Job
In this article I argue that Augustine's four late works against the so‐called “Semi‐Pelagians” can be read creatively and reparatively alongside the book of Job. Specifically, Augustine's frequent appeals to the inscrutability of God's judgment can be compared with God's speeches to Job out of the whirlwind. Having shown how the latter operate “indexically”, I will return to Augustine to highlight signs of indexicality throughout his four works.…
The Human Being as Sign in Augustine’s De doctrina christiana
This article offers an interpretation of Augustine's De doctrina christiana I-II.5.6, which brings contemporary semiotic theory into dialogue with Augustinian theology in order to flesh out Augustine's incipient semiotic theological anthropology. The argument focuses on the interrelation between Augustine's two seminal distinctions, between signum and res, and between uti and frui, reading the first (semiotic) distinction in the light of the seco…
A New Apophaticism
In A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. Shifting the focus away from the potential and failure of words to say something about God, the book suggests that the purpose of God-language is to transform human beings in their relationship with God. Augustine's doctrine of predestination is read, with the help of speech-act theory and the study of indexicals, for its powe…
Response to Mike Higton
The Scriptural Logic of Barmen and the Jewish Question
Doctrine in a radically apophatic register
This article develops an account of doctrine that seeks to reconceive the nature of doctrinal reference within the context of human transformation. It sets out from Augustine's advice to the preacher of the doctrine of predestination, discovering three layers of doctrinal interpretation, rooted in and geared towards transformation. Augustine's advice is applied generally to suggest that the role of doctrine is to ward off general classification i…
Jewish-Christian dialogue
Wellness in the Light of the Eschaton
This article considers wellness in terms of creaturely integrity, asking how the latter might be reconceived in the light of the eschaton. To that end, it draws on Augustine’s eschatological reading of the Psalms in his Enarrationes in Psalmos . It suggests that an eschatological vision reveals the “wholes” we habitually seek to be only partial wholes, which have a tendency to become “totalizing wholes.” Having offered an account of Augustine’s t…
Domains, Normativity, and Normativity Across Domains
How is it possible for members of different and conflicting religious traditions to engage amicably with one another without bracketing their deepest religious commitments? Ochs’s account of the practice and philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning provides an answer to this question in terms of a logic of normative engagement across traditional borders distinct but not separate from the normative decision-making that takes place within particular trad…
God, Evil and the Limits of Theology by KarenKilby (London
Becoming Black
This article compares and contrasts James Cone’s use of “blackness” with Karl Barth’s use of “Israel”. It argues that, by contrast with Barth’s overdetermined use of “Israel” as a fixed designator for a fixed people, “black” for Cone is a deliberately mobile designator, shifting (roughly) between skin colour, ancestry and cultural heritage, and political and theological disposition. It thus has the requisite suppleness to enable Cone’s theology t…
Fallible Commitment
This article draws on Augustine’s De trinitate to articulate a logic of fallibilist commitment. It speaks into the wider context of twenty-first century religious pluralism, focusing as a test case on Christian post-supersessionism, in which the problem of fallible commitment emerges for the Christian who seeks, in response to her Jewish co-traditionalists, to repair her own tradition in respect of its long-entrenched supersessionism (the family …
Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Theology (11 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (8 works) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)