On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity (Reading Augustine)

Kenney, John Peter

ISBN 10: 1501313983 / ISBN 13: 9781501313981

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity (Reading Augustine)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501313983
• ISBN 13: 9781501313981
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 0.45 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion > Christian Theology

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Synopsis

Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine’s importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian thinker but as a philosophical, spiritual, literary and intellectual icon of the West. Why did the ancients come to adopt monotheism and Christianity? On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity introduces possible answers to that question by looking closely at the development of the thought of Augustine of Hippo, whose complex spiritual trajectory included Gnosticism, academic skepticism, pagan Platonism, and orthodox Christianity. What was so compelling about Christianity and how did Augustine become convinced that his soul could enter into communion with a transcendent God? The apparently sudden shift of ancient culture to monotheism and Christianity was momentous, defining the subsequent nature of Western religion and thought. John Peter Kenney shows us that Augustine offers an unusually clear vantage point to understand the essential ideas that drove that transition.

About the Author

Miles Hollingworth is Research Fellow in the History of Ideas at St. John's College, Durham. His writing on Augustine has won awards from the Society of Authors (2009 Elizabeth Longford Grant for Historical Biography) and the Royal Society of Literature (2009 Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction). He is the author of The Pilgrim City: St. Augustine of Hippo and his Innovation in Political Thought (also published by Bloomsbury), which was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone History Book Prize.