Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1st Edition, 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521589529, ISBN10: 0521589525
Paperback, 356 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This major work constitutes a significant attempt to provide a detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine's thought as a whole. It describes the transformation of Greco-Roman philosophy into the version that was to become the most influential in the history of Western thought. Augustine weighed some of the major themes of classical philosophy and ancient culture against the truth he found in the Bible and Catholic tradition, and reformulated these in Christian dress.
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Works of Augustine
Notes on chronology
Bibliographical note
1. Approaching Augustine
2. Words, signs and things
3. Certainty, belief and understanding
4. Soul, body and personal identity
5. Will, love and right action
6. Individuals, social institutions and political life
7. Evil, justice and divine omnipotence
8. Augustinus redivivus
Appendix 1
Porphyry's account of the sentence in the De Magistro
Apendix 2
Traducianism, creationism and the transmission of original sin
Appendix 3
Augustine and Julian
aspects of the debate about sexual concupiscentia
Indexes.