Augustine's City of God

A Critical Guide
Herausgeber: Wetzel, James

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses the complex and conflicted vision in Augustine's City of God, as a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781107463189
• ISBN-10: 1107463181
• Artikelnr.: 41416823

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction James Wetzel
1. The history of the book: Augustine's City of God and post-Roman cultural memory Mark Vessey
2. Secularity and the saeculum Paul J. Griffiths
3. Augustine's dystopia Peter Iver Kaufman
4. From rape to resurrection: sin, sexual difference, and politics Margaret R. Miles
5. Ideology and solidarity in Augustine's City of God John Cavadini
6. The theatre of the virtues: Augustine's critique of Pagan mimesis Jennifer Herdt
7. The psychology of compassion: Stoicism in City of God 9.5 Sarah Byers
8. Augustine's rejection of eudaimonism Nicholas Wolterstorff
9. Augustine on the origin of evil: myth and metaphysics James Wetzel
10. Hell and the dilemmas of intractable alienation John Bowlin
11. On the nature and worth of Christian philosophy: evidence from the City of God John Rist
12. Reinventing Augustine's ethics: the afterlife of City of God Bonnie Kent.