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Published by Routledge, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0415200636ISBN 13: 9780415200639
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Robert A. Markus, Carol Harrison. {Gerald Bonner} (illustrator). Re-issue. LONDON : 2004. Paperback. Red and grey pictorial covers. A tight, bright and clean copy. Neat owner name; no internal markings. FINE. (xiii), 274 pages. Index. CONTENTS : Gerald Bonner: an appreciation / Daniel W. Hardy -- Gerald Bonner: a select bibliography / Daniel W. Hardy -- Studying Augustine: an overview of recent research / Hubertus R. Drobner -- Paucius mutatis verbis: St Augustine's Platonism / Robert Crouse -- The fundamental grammar of Augustine's trinitarian theology / Lewis Ayres -- Sacred triads: Augustine and the Indo-European soul / John Milbank -- Insubstantial evil / Rowan Williams -- Snares of truth: Augustine on free will and predestination / James Wetzel -- Augustine's decentring of asceticism / George Lawless -- Christ, God and woman in the thought of St. Augustine / E. Ann Matter -- A critical evaluation of critiques of Augustine's view of sexuality / Mathijs Lamberigts -- 'Tempora Christiana' revisited / Robert A. Markus -- The rhetoric of scripture and preaching: classical decadence or Christian aesthetic? / Carol Harrison -- Augustine's secular city / Robert Dodaro. SUMMARY : This text examines the arguments of certain strident, present-day critics of Augustine, responding to the more inaccurate and unfair of these criticisms and arguing in favour of some of the historical, philosophical and theological perspectives which lie behind Augustine's most unpopular convictions. It offers an insightful analysis of Augustine's thought and of critical responses to that thought. Augustine's writings have continually met with both kindly readers and frank critics and interest in his thought has not waned even in our own times. Contemporary philosophers, theologians, spiritual writers, cultural theorists and social scientists take him to task for a number of positions ranging from human sexuality and the body, gender, personal freedom, religious liberty and the ethics of force, to his concepts of the self and God. More often than not today, Augustine's outlook is characterised as 'pessimistic', and he is charged with responsibility for a certain Christian malaise. Lg.8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian Books, Literature, Theology and History. ].