Author: David Vincent Meconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422519
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God
Author: David Vincent Meconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422519
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422519
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine
Author: David Vincent Meconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
Augustine's City of God
Author: Gerard O'Daly
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591165
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The City of God is the most influential of Augustine's works, which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. This book is the first comprehensive modern guide to it in any language. The City of God's scope embodies cosmology, psychology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, biblical interpretation, and apocalyptic themes. This book is, therefore, at once about a single masterpiece and at the same time surveys Augustine's developing views through the whole range of his thought. The book is written in the form of a detailed running commentary on each part of the work. Further chapters elucidate the early fifth-century political, social, historical, and literary background, the work's sources, and its place in Augustine's writings.The book should prove of value to Augustine's wide readership among students of late antiquity, theologians, philosophers, medievalists, Renaissance scholars, and historians of art and iconography.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591165
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The City of God is the most influential of Augustine's works, which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. This book is the first comprehensive modern guide to it in any language. The City of God's scope embodies cosmology, psychology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, biblical interpretation, and apocalyptic themes. This book is, therefore, at once about a single masterpiece and at the same time surveys Augustine's developing views through the whole range of his thought. The book is written in the form of a detailed running commentary on each part of the work. Further chapters elucidate the early fifth-century political, social, historical, and literary background, the work's sources, and its place in Augustine's writings.The book should prove of value to Augustine's wide readership among students of late antiquity, theologians, philosophers, medievalists, Renaissance scholars, and historians of art and iconography.
The Cambridge Companion to St Paul
Author: James D. G. Dunn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521786942
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as such, they shaped Christian thinking from the beginning. As a missionary, theologian and pastor Paul's own wrestling with theological and ethical questions of his day is paradigmatic for Christian theology, not least for Christianity's own identity and continuing relationship with Judaism. The Cambridge Companion to St Paul provides an important assessment of this apostle and a fresh appreciation of his continuing significance today. With eighteen chapters written by a team of leading international specialists on Paul, the Companion provides a sympathetic and critical overview of the apostle, covering his life and work, his letters and his theology. The volume will provide an invaluable starting point and helpful cross check for subsequent studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521786942
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as such, they shaped Christian thinking from the beginning. As a missionary, theologian and pastor Paul's own wrestling with theological and ethical questions of his day is paradigmatic for Christian theology, not least for Christianity's own identity and continuing relationship with Judaism. The Cambridge Companion to St Paul provides an important assessment of this apostle and a fresh appreciation of his continuing significance today. With eighteen chapters written by a team of leading international specialists on Paul, the Companion provides a sympathetic and critical overview of the apostle, covering his life and work, his letters and his theology. The volume will provide an invaluable starting point and helpful cross check for subsequent studies.
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions”
Author: Tarmo Toom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108491863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108491863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.
Politics and the Earthly City in Augustine's City of God
Author: Veronica Ogle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842593
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A new reading of Augustine's City of God which considers the status of politics within Augustine's sacramental worldview.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842593
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A new reading of Augustine's City of God which considers the status of politics within Augustine's sacramental worldview.
The Cambridge Companion to Anselm
Author: Brian Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002059
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002059
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521436106
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521436106
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.
The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Author: Edward T. Oakes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521891479
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher's description: Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now coming to prominence. But because of his own daring speculations about the meaning of Christ's descent into hell after the crucifixion, about the uniqueness of Christ as savior of a pluralistic world, and because he draws so many of his resources for his theology from literature, drama, and philosophy, Balthasar has never been an easily-categorized theologian. He is neither liberal nor conservative, neither Thomist nor modernist and he seems to elude all attempts to capture the exact way he creatively reinterprets the tradition of Christian thought. For that reason, this Companion is singularly welcome bringing together a wide range of theologians both to outline and to assess the work of someone whom history will surely rank someday with Origen, John Calvin, and Karl Barth.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521891479
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher's description: Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now coming to prominence. But because of his own daring speculations about the meaning of Christ's descent into hell after the crucifixion, about the uniqueness of Christ as savior of a pluralistic world, and because he draws so many of his resources for his theology from literature, drama, and philosophy, Balthasar has never been an easily-categorized theologian. He is neither liberal nor conservative, neither Thomist nor modernist and he seems to elude all attempts to capture the exact way he creatively reinterprets the tradition of Christian thought. For that reason, this Companion is singularly welcome bringing together a wide range of theologians both to outline and to assess the work of someone whom history will surely rank someday with Origen, John Calvin, and Karl Barth.
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.