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This paper deals with St. Augustine’s doctrine of the inner word. The author reconstructs the evolution of this doctrine from Augustine’s early philosophical dialogues and up to the monumental treatise “On Trinity”; reveals close connection between this doctrine and Augustine’s views on human understanding, words and signs, as well as on self-knowledge, in which human mind objectifies itself and constitutes its inner being through an inner speech or inner word, equal to the mind, which the mind generates through desire of it and unites to itself through love to it. The article also shows the importance of this doctrine for Augustine’s trinitarian theology, in which the process of the generation of the Son from God the Father is regarded as the generation of the eternal Word of God, which is the perfect Image of the Father, reflecting in itself the fullness of His being.

Keywords: St. Augustine of Hippo, Christianity, philosophy, theology, epistemology, semiotics, anthropology, triadology.