Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 1960
Category : God
ISBN :
English equivalent of Introduction a l'etude de saint Augustin, 2 ed., Paris, Vrin 1943.
Author : John Peter Kenney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134442726
Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians. This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it anticipates. The Confessions offer a response to this impasse by generating two critical ideas in medieval and modern religious thought: firstly, the conception of contemplation as a purely epistemic event, in contrast to classical Platonism; secondly, the tenet that salvation is absolutely distinct from enlightenment.
Author : R.W. Dyson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1847140971
St Augustine of Hippo was the earliest thinker to develop a distinctively Christian political and social philosophy. He does so mainly from the perspective of Platonism and Stoicism; but by introducing the biblical and Pauline conceptions of sin, grace and predestination he radically transforms the 'classical' understanding of the political. Humanity is not perfectible through participation in the life of a moral community; indeed, there are no moral communities on earth. Humankind is fallen; we are slaves of self-love and the destructive impulses generated by it. The State is no longer the matrix within which human beings can achieve ethical goods through co-operation with other rational and moral beings. Augustine's response to classical political assumptions and claims therefore transcends 'normal' radicalism. His project is not that of drawing attention to weaknesses and inadequacies in our political arrangements with a view to recommending their abolition or improvement. Nor does he adopt the classical practice of delineating an ideal State. To his mind, all States are imperfect: they are the mechanisms whereby an imperfect world is regulated. They can provide justice and peace of a kind, but even the best earthly versions of justice and peace are not true justice and peace. It is precisely the impossibility of true justice on earth that makes the State necessary. Robert Dyson's new book describes and analyses this 'transformation' in detail and shows Augustine's enormous influence upon the development of political thought down to the thirteenth century.
Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 1960
Category : God
ISBN :
English equivalent of Introduction a l'etude de saint Augustin, 2 ed., Paris, Vrin 1943.
Author : Ryan N. S. Topping
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813219736
Happiness and Wisdom contributes to ongoing debates about the nature of Augustine's early development, and argues that Augustine's vision of the soul's ascent through the liberal arts is an attractive and basically coherent view of learning, which, while not wholly novel, surpasses both classical and earlier patristic renderings of the aims of education.
Author : Robert J. O'Connell
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
St. Augustine was a consummate artist as well as a great philosopher, and he was deeply concerned with art, beauty and human values. But little attention has been paid to his theory of aesthetics. Now a distinguished Augustine scholar turns to this important subject and offers a book that is at once engaging, comprehensive and complete.
Author : James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 149341996X
★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
Author : John M. Rist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521589529
A detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine's thought.
Author : Gavin Ortlund
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830853251
How might premodern exegesis of Genesis inform Christian debates about creation today? Pastor and theologian Gavin Ortlund retrieves Augustine's reading of Genesis 1-3 and considers how his premodern understanding of creation can help Christians today, shedding light on matters such as evolution, animal death, and the historical Adam and Eve.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Fathers of the church
ISBN :
One of Augustine's most important works, written between 388 and 395, this dialogue has as its objective not so much to discuss free will for its own sake as to discuss the problem of evil in reference to the existence of God, who is almighty and all-good.
