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Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine

Author : Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725218305
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine written by Peter Robert Lamont Brown and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Brown, author of the celebrated 'Augustine of Hippo', has here gathered together his seminal articles and papers on the rapidly changing world of Saint Augustine. The collection is wide-ranging, dealing with political theory, social history, church history, historiography, theology, history of religions, and social anthropology. Saint Augustine is, of course, the central figure; and in an important introduction Peter Brown explains how the preoccupations of these essays led him to write the prize-winning biography. Brown then goes on to explore the heart of Augustine's political theory, not only showing how it factors in Augustine's thought, but also pointing to what is different from and similar to twentieth-century political thought.

Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine

Author : Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556351747
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine written by Peter Robert Lamont Brown and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Brown, author of the celebrated 'Augustine of Hippo', has here gathered together his seminal articles and papers on the rapidly changing world of Saint Augustine. The collection is wide-ranging, dealing with political theory, social history, church history, historiography, theology, history of religions, and social anthropology. Saint Augustine is, of course, the central figure; and in an important introduction Peter Brown explains how the preoccupations of these essays led him to write the prize-winning biography. Brown then goes on to explore the heart of Augustine's political theory, not only showing how it factors in Augustine's thought, but also pointing to what is different from and similar to twentieth-century political thought.

Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine written by Peter Brown and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transformations of Late Antiquity

Author : Manolis Papoutsakis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878085
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Transformations of Late Antiquity written by Manolis Papoutsakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a simple dynamic: the taking in hand of a heritage, the variety of changes induced within it, and the handing on of that legacy to new generations. Our contributors suggest, from different standpoints, that this dynamic represented the essence of 'late antiquity'. As Roman society, and the societies by which it was immediately bounded, continued to develop, through to the late sixth and early seventh centuries, the interplay between what needed to be treasured and what needed to be explored became increasingly self-conscious, versatile, and enriched. By the time formerly alien peoples had established their 'post-classical' polities, and Islam began to stir in the East, the novelties were more clearly seen, if not always welcomed; and one witnesses a stronger will to maintain the momentum of change, of a forward reach. At the same time, those in a position to play now the role of heirs were well able to appreciate how suited to their needs the 'Roman' past might be, but how, by taking it up in their turn, they were more securely defined and yet more creatively advantaged. 'Transformation' is a notion apposite to essays in honour of Peter Brown. 'The transformation of the classical heritage' is a theme to which he has devoted, and continues to devote, much energy. All the essays here in some way explore this notion of transformation; the late antique ability to turn the past to new uses, and to set its wealth of principle and insight to work in new settings. To begin, there is the very notion of what it meant to be 'Roman', and how that notion changed. Subsequent chapters suggest ways in which fundamental characteristics of Roman society were given new form, not least under the impact of a Christian polity. Augustine, naturally, finds his place; and here the emphasis is on the unfettered stance that he took in the face of more broadly held convictions - on miracles, for example, and the errors of the pagan past. The discussion then moves on to

Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation

Author : Gavin Ortlund
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830853251
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation written by Gavin Ortlund and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might premodern exegesis of Genesis inform Christian debates about creation today? Pastor and theologian Gavin Ortlund retrieves Augustine's reading of Genesis 1-3 and considers how his premodern understanding of creation can help Christians today, shedding light on matters such as evolution, animal death, and the historical Adam and Eve.

Pelagius

Author : Brinley Roderick Rees
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851157146
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Pelagius written by Brinley Roderick Rees and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Rees here re-examines the evidence for the Pelagian controversy. The second part of the book consists of Pelagius' letters, which provide the clearest and most succinct statements of Pelagian theology, but few of which have ever been translated into English before. --from publisher description.

Augustine and the Jews

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300166281
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Augustine and the Jews written by Paula Fredriksen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Augustine and the Jews, Fredriksen draws us into the life, times, and thought of Augustine of Hippo (396–430). Focusing on the period of astounding creativity that led to his new understanding of Paul and to his great classic, The Confessions, she shows how Augustine’s struggle to read the Bible led him to a new theological vision, one that countered the anti-Judaism not only of his Manichaean opponents but also of his own church. The Christian Empire, Augustine held, was right to ban paganism and to coerce heretics. But the source of ancient Jewish scripture and current Jewish practice, he argued, was the very same as that of the New Testament and of the church—namely, God himself. Accordingly, he urged, Jews were to be left alone. Conceived as a vividly original way to defend Christian ideas about Jesus and about the Old Testament, Augustine’s theological innovation survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and it ultimately served to protect Jewish lives against the brutality of medieval crusades. Augustine and the Jews sheds new light on the origins of Christian anti-Semitism and, through Augustine, opens a path toward better understanding between two of the world’s great religions.

Grace and the Will According to Augustine

Author : Lenka Karfíková
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004229213
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Grace and the Will According to Augustine written by Lenka Karfíková and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine on grace, one of the most discussed themes in his later years, was regarded by Augustine as the very core of Christianity. This book traces the gradual crystallisation of this teaching, including its unacceptable consequences (such as double predestination, inherited guilt which deserves eternal punishment, and its transmission through libidinous procreation). How did the reader of Cicero and “the books of the Platonists” reach the ideas that appear in his polemic against Julian (and which remind one of Freud rather than the Stoics or Plotinus)? That is the point of departure of this book. It surely cannot be expected that there is a definite answer to the question; rather, the aim is to follow and understand the development.

Augustine’s Cyprian

Author : Matthew Alan Gaumer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004312641
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Augustine’s Cyprian written by Matthew Alan Gaumer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Augustine’s Cyprian Matthew Gaumer retraces how Augustine of Hippo devised the ultimate strategy to suppress Donatist Christianity, an indigenous form of the religion in ancient North Africa. Spanning nearly forty years, Augustine’s entire clerical career was spent combating the Donatists and seeking the dominance of the Catholic Church in North Africa. Through a variety of approaches Augustine evolved a method to successfully outlaw and deconstruct the Donatist Church’s organisation. This hinged on concerted preaching, tract writing, integrating Roman imperial authorities, and critically: by denying the Donatists’ exclusive claim to Cyprian of Carthage. Re-appropriation of Cyprian’s authority required Augustine and his allies to re-write history and pose positions contrary to Cyprian’s. In the end, Cyprian was the Donatists’ no longer.

Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe

Author : Edward Peters
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812211030
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe written by Edward Peters and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to the orthodoxy was to set oneself in opposition not merely to church and state but to a whole culture in all of its manifestations. From the eleventh century to the fifteenth, however, dissenting movements appeared with greater frequency, attracted more followers, acquired philosophical as well as theological dimensions, and occupied more and more the time and the minds of religious and civil authorities. In the perception of dissent and in the steps taken to deal with it lies the history of medieval heresy and the force it exerted on religious, social, and political communities long after the Middle Ages. In this volume, Edward Peters makes available the most compact and wide-ranging collection of source materials in translation on medieval orthodoxy and heterodoxy in social context.

The Pelagian Controversy

Author : Stuart Squires
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532637837
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Pelagian Controversy written by Stuart Squires and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pelagian Controversy (411-431) was one of the most important theological controversies in the history of Christianity. It was a bitter and messy affair in the evening of the Roman Empire that addressed some of the most important questions that we ask about ourselves: Who are we? What does it mean to be a human being? Are we good, or are we evil? Are we burdened by an uncontrollable impulse to sin? Do we have free will? It was comprised by a group of men who were some of the greatest thinkers of Late Antiquity, such as Augustine, Jerome, John Cassian, Pelagius, Caelestius, and Julian of Eclanum. These men were deeply immersed in the rich Roman literary and intellectual traditions of that time, and they, along with many other great minds of this period, tried to create equally rich Christian literary and intellectual traditions. This controversy--which is usually of interest only to historians and theologians of Christianity--should be appreciated by a wide audience because it was the primary event that shaped the way Christians came to understand the human person for the next 1,600 years. It is still relevant today because anthropological questions continue to haunt our public discourse.

Augustine's Commentary on Galatians

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199244391
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Augustine's Commentary on Galatians written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Resistance and Theological Ethics

Author : Ronald H. Stone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742541592
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Resistance and Theological Ethics written by Ronald H. Stone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999. These writings from educators and ethicists combine to sound a clarion call for the church to stand in resistance to social, economic and political forces that threaten--while embracing those that foster--social justice, peace and human welfare. Each author emphasizes a specific call to resistance against powers grounded in particular forms of sin: religious pride, greed, violence and domination. Divided into three parts, the book details social forces to be resisted, presents historical and biblical examples of resistance, and concludes with theological analysis and advocacy for action in contemporary American society.

Caesarius of Arles

Author : William E. Klingshirn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528528
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Caesarius of Arles written by William E. Klingshirn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Christianisation of southern France through the career and writings of Bishop Caesarius of Arles.

On Augustine

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472925289
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book On Augustine written by Rowan Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine. St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory (City of God) and through his Confessions to the understanding of human psychology. Rowan Williams has an entirely fresh perspective on these matters and the chapter titles in this new book demonstrate this at a glance - 'Language Reality and Desire', 'Politics and the Soul', 'Paradoxes of Self Knowledge', 'Insubstantial Evil'. As with his previous titles, Dostoevsky, The Edge of Words and Faith in the Public Square this new study is sure to be a major contribution on a compelling subject.

Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity

Author : John A. Maxfield
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1935503510
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity written by John A. Maxfield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther's lectures on Genesis, delivered at the University of Wittenberg during the last decade of his life and later published by his students, allow modern readers to view a sixteenth-century professor engaging his students with the text of scripture and using that text to form them spiritually. The lectures show how Luther attempted to form in his students a new identity, an Evangelical identity, enabling them to make sense of the rapidly changing society and church in which they were being prepared to serve, primarily as pastors in the developing territorial churches of the Reformation. This study uses the text of the lectures to outline the contours of the new identity that Luther laid out through his exposition of Genesis. They include how Luther approached and taught his students to perceive the text of holy scripture; how that text unveiled for Luther the nature of Christian life in the world; and how Luther taught his students to view the past, the present, and the future of the church and the world through the book of Genesis. Whether in the published editions of the lectures the historic Luther was actually misunderstood or was transformed in some way into the prophetic Luther of later memory, the text reveals the Luther that his students heard and subsequent generations read.

Augustine and Modern Law

Author : James Bernard Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135157499X
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Augustine and Modern Law written by James Bernard Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Augustine and Roman law are the two bridges from Athens and Jerusalem to the world of modern law. Augustine's almost eerily modern political realism was based upon his deep appreciation of human evil, arising from his insights into the human personality, the product of his reflections on his own life and the history of his times. These insights have traveled well through the ages and are mirrored in the pages of Aquinas, Luther and Calvin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah Arendt. The articles in this volume describe the life and world of Augustine and the ways in which he conceived both justice and law. They also discuss the little recognized Augustinian contributions to the field of modern hermeneutics - the discipline which informs the art of legal interpretation. Finally, they include Augustine's valuable discussion of church/state relations, the law of just wars, and proper role and limits of coercion, and the procreative dimensions of marriage. The volume also includes an extremely useful, definitive bibliography of Augustine and the law, and will leave readers with an increased appreciation of the contributions which Augustine has made to the history of jurisprudence. No one can read Augustine and these articles on his view of the law without taking away a new view of the law itself.