Abstract

St. Augustine expounds his theory of intellectual vision in book XII of The literal meaning of Genesis. This involves the sight of the mind's eye which operates in the upper echelon of the human soul. My paper deals with how intellectual vision relates to Augustine’s doctrine of imago Dei, or his interpretation of the verses Genesis 1:27: God created man in his own image. The imago Dei, located in every human intellect, progressively acquires a resemblance to God by gathering knowledge from divine Light. This doctrine furnishes the potential of a divine, epistemological experience in the form of a uisio intellectualis.