Augustine

From Rhetor to Theologian
Herausgeber: McWilliam, Joanne; Slater, Peter; Fahey, Michael; Barnes, Timothy

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays on Augustine as rhetor and theologian

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781554585472
• ISBN-10: 1554585473
• Artikelnr.: 35365800

Autorenporträt

Joanne McWilliam was Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at the University of Toronto. She was a pioneer woman in the academic study of theology, specializing in Patristic studies and internationally recognized for her work on Augustine.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Augustine, Symmachus, and Ambrose, by T. D. Barnes
The Literary Unity of the Confessions
From Literal Self-Sacrifice to Literary Self-Sacrifice: Augustine's
Confessions and the Rhetoric of Testimony, by Jamie Scott
Augustine's Conversion and the Ninth Book of the Confessions, by Colin
Starnes
"Homo Spiritualis" in the Confessions of St. Augustine, by Roland J. Teske
Augustine's Confessions: Elements of Fiction, by J.J. O'Meara
Beyond Augustine's Conversion Scene, by Leo Ferrari
Augustinian Platonism in Early Medieval Theology, by R.D. Crouse
Pelagius Anticipated: Grace and Election in Augustine's Ad Simplicianum, by
James Wetzel
The Human and the Angelic Fall: Aill and Moral Agency in Augustine's City
of God, by William S. Babcock
Goodness as Order and Harmony in Augustine, by Peter Slater
Christ and the Holy Spirit in Augustine's Theology of Baptism, by J. Patout
Burns
Augustine's Ecclesiology Revisited, by Michael A. Fahey, S.J.
The Study of Augustine's Christology in the Twentieth Century, by Joanne
McWilliam
Augustine in Translation: Achievements and Further Goals, by Thomas Halton
Index