Certainly the priority of grace is Augustinian. But Augustine also had a commitment to predestination that Ottati doesn't exactly share. However the major characteristic of the book is that it reviews the major alternatives on issues, criticizes all of them, and adopts a set of statements that he thinks are well justified, rather than any of the specific theories that he reviews. This is the sort of approach that was taken by Nicea, which didn't define a complete theology of the Trinity, but adopted a set of statements that set boundaries within which discussion should occur. Even Chalcedon should probably be understand as that kind of thing applied to the Incarnation. (However from a historical point of view it was less successful, because there were other reasonable ways to talk about the Incarnation, and the Church was never able to manage the conflict with people holding those views.)
I don't think Ottati's final statements are the only value to the book. His review and assessments of the major alternatives is also really helpful. I shouldn't give the impression that he treats them all equally. Some he's willing to accept with appropriate qualification.
Would you be interested in doing a review of it for the site sometime?
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