| Description |
xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Radical orthodoxy series |
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Radical orthodoxy series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Thinking with and about Augustine -- 1. A grim paternity? -- The alleged sins of the father -- The grand architect and the builders -- The West that never was: the theological critique -- Love in the time of avarice: the postmodern critique -- 2. De Trinitate and the aesthetics of salvation -- The aesthetics of salvation -- Delight and the beauty of God -- The Body of Christ and the eros of faith -- 3. Christology, cosmology and the mechanics of grace -- On the intelligibility of the Pelagian controversy -- Pelagianism: a problem of trinitarian theology? -- Creation and the mechanics of grace -- Augustine's doxological self -- 4. The subtle triumph of Pelagianism -- On winning the battle and losing the war -- Duelling cosmologies -- Pelagianizing Augustine -- 5. An Augustinian parody: Descartes and modern stoicism -- An overlooked chapter in the story of modern origins -- Why Augustine is not a Cartesian -- Why Descartes is not Augustinian |
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Postscript: Modernity in Augustinian hindsight |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy and religion -- History.
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Self (Philosophy) -- History.
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Self -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, 30-600
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| LC no. |
2002031937 |
| ISBN |
0415284686 : |
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0415284694 : |
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