El verbum cordis formabile agustiniano y la imagen trinitaria en el hombre

this work analyzes the concept of "verbum formabile", that saint agustine discusses in de trinitate xv,xv,25. such reality is present to our mind in an initially "formless", but nevertheless, true and real way: it is a "silent" word, but a necessary presupposition of that inner activity that is the pronouncement of the "verbum cordis", which is the human word, partly already formed and intelligible, that is born from that initial formless word, with man's contact with the real world, by the activity of the "cogitatio". in fact, the word's generation in the human mind needs, in man's interior activity, not a mere passive "tabula rasa", but an intelligible actuality, a participation in the eternally generated truth, although initially undetermined to our vision. the word of the human mind is not, therefore, the mere product of the finite human essence, but a dynamic participation in that infinite action that takes its origin in the creative activity of the divine trinity, whose reflection in the empirical universe projects itself really, though enigmatically, in the marvelous interior mirror of the mind.