Charles T. Mathewes

Evil and the Augustinian Tradition (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This explores the 'family biography' of the Augustinian tradition by looking at Augustine's work and its development in the writings of Hannah Arendt and Reinhold Niebuhr. Mathewes argues that the Augustinian tradition offers us a powerful, though commonly misconstrued, proposal for understanding and responding to evil's challenges. The book casts light on Augustine, Niebuhr and Arendt, as well as on the problem of evil, the nature of tradition, and the role of theological and ethical discourse in contemporary thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511029080
• Artikelnr.: 38210945

Autorenporträt

Charles T. Mathewes is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where he teaches theology, ethics, and religion and culture. He has published in The Journal of Religious Ethics, Modern Theology, The Journal of Religion, Anglican Theological Review and The Hedgehog Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: reaching disagreement
Part I. Preliminaries: Evil and the Augustinian Tradition: 1. Modernity and evil
2. The Augustinian tradition and its discontents
Part II. Genealogy: Remembering the Augustinian Tradition: 3. Sin as perversion: Reinhold Niebuhr's Augustinian psychology
4. Evil as privation: Hannah Arendt's Augustinian ontology
Part III. The Challenge of the Augustinian Tradition to Evil: 5. Demythologising evil
Conclusion: realising incomprehension, discerning mystery
Works cited
Index.