Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 371 g
Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity
Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 371 g
Reihe: Christian Theology in Context
ISBN: 978-0-19-875219-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford
St. Augustine, the North African bishop of Hippo (AD 354-430), has been much studied. But there has been no systematic attempt to consider the context which shaped his life and thought.
Augustine's long and controversial career and his vast literary output provide unrivalled evidence for understanding the diverse ways in which Christianity confronted, assimilated, and finally transformed the traditional society of late antiquity.
This book sets Augustine in his cultural and social context showing how, as a Christian, he came to terms with the philosophical and rhetorical ideals of classical culture, and, as a bishop, with the ecclesiastical, ascetic, and political structures of late antique society.
According to Augustine, the Fall of man and Original sin fracture and vitiate mankind's ability to know or to will the good. This is revealed as the keystone of his theology, effecting a decisive break with classical ideals of perfection and shaping the distinctive theology of Western Christendom.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
