Outside the Usitatissimus Cursus. An Augustinian Aporia on Nature?

Moving from the consideration of divine omnipotence, Augustine’s philosophical and theological inquiry raises further questions. The aim of this paper is to deal with the inherently problematic features brought about by the notion of nature. Nature is seen by Augustine as a plastic and dynamic concept, which unifies various semantic frameworks. In this study, I will focus on nature as the broadly-recognized dimension where phaenomena take place following stable and calculated laws, arguing that the tension existing between such a notion and the divine omnipotence hardly finds a solution.