The Presence of God : a history of Western Christian mysticism

over.” Transiliens is an image of the active leaping of the Totus Christus, specifically the body, in Christ and to Christ. G. contends that trin. shows that “reflexive contemplation” of the self or mind, even in Augustine’s subtle triads, is not able to mediate the Trinity. Such mediation, as G.’s examination of memory in En. in Ps. has shown, is not “consummated by self-awareness or mindfulness” (202). Rather, the failure of memory in trin. presumes, G. asserts, the success of memory as disclosed in En. in Ps. Augustine on Memory is a significant contribution to Augustinian and theological scholarship. G. has convincingly shown the integration of Augustine’s theology of the Totus Christus with his profound reflection on memory. By moving beyond the concern of memory as a faculty, G. reconfigures how to understand memory and its work. The consequence of this move is ultimately to suggest a completely different, more textured Augustinian anthropology.