Augustine.

Augustine.

Western theology and philosophy without Augustine is almost inconceivable. He turned Pauline eschatology into a psychology of redemption and bequeathed to the Christianity of his day its profoundest sense of the adventure of soul. His offerings to philosophy included a staggeringly important but hig...

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Main Author: Wetzel, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010.
Series:Guides for the perplexed.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Religion.
philosophy.
religion (discipline)
Philosophy
Religion
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Summary:Western theology and philosophy without Augustine is almost inconceivable. He turned Pauline eschatology into a psychology of redemption and bequeathed to the Christianity of his day its profoundest sense of the adventure of soul. His offerings to philosophy included a staggeringly important but highly problematic conception of will, a new kind of introspection, and a sense of providential order that seemed paradoxically to demand a secular politics. Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed takes up the major concerns of Augustine's complex and evolving thought and accords them a form that allows.
Physical Description:1 online resource (167 pages)
ISBN:9781441174826
1441174826
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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