Grace and the Will According to Augustine

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22533-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 115, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the intellectual history of Late Antiquity, the history of the Church, theology, and the history of the exegesis: specialists, students, and educated laymen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karfíková, Lenka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I “Nothing Else do I Have but Will” (386–395)
1 God as the Guarantor of the World Order and the Giver of Knowledge (Philosophical Dialogues from Cassiciacum in 386)
2 The Universe of Will (Works before Augustine’s Ordination as Presbyter: 387–390)
3 Pauline Themes (the Period of the Presbyterate: 391–395)

II “THE GRACE OF GOD CONQUERED” (395–411)
1 Answer to Simplicianus
2 Confessions
3 Other Works from the Beginning of the Episcopate
4 Anti-Donatist Works

III “THE WILL IS PREPARED BY THE LORD” (411–430)
1 Polemic against Pelagius and Caelestius (411–418)
2 Other Works from the Period 411–430
3 Polemic against Julian of Eclanum (419–430)

Conclusion
Appendix: Augustine as a Philosopher of the Will
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Karfíková, Lenka
Lenka Karfíková, Dr. theol. (Eichstätt 1997), is Professor of Philosophy at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Her main publications are De esse ad pulchrum esse. Schönheit in der Theologie Hugos von St.-Viktor (Brepols, 1998) and Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium II (Brill, 2007).