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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782631303321

Titolo

Augustine : from rhetor to theologian / / Joanne McWilliam, editor ; in collaboration with Timothy Barnes, Michael Fahey, and Peter Slater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont. : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 1992

©1992

ISBN

1-55458-547-3

1-282-23267-3

9786613810410

0-88920-688-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 237 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

McWilliamJoanne <1928->

Disciplina

270.2/092

Soggetti

Christian literature, Early

Christian saints

Theology, Doctrinal - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selection of papers presented to a conference held at Trinity College, Toronto to celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the conversion of Augustine of Hippo.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Augustine, Symmachus, and Ambrose; The Literary Unity of the Confessions; From Literal Self-Sacrifice to Literary Self-Sacrifice: Augustine's Confessions and the Rhetoric of Testimony; Augustine's Conversion and the Ninth Book of the Confessions; ""Homo Spiritualis"" in the Confessions of St. Augustine; Augustine's Confessions: Elements of Fiction; Beyond Augustine's Conversion Scene; Augustinian Platonism in Early Medieval Theology; Pelagius Anticipated: Grace and Election in Augustine's Ad Simplicianum

The Human and the Angelic Fall: Will and Moral Agency in Augustine's City of God; Goodness as Order and Harmony in Augustine; Christ and the Holy Spirit in Augustine's Theology of Baptism; Augustine's Ecclesiology Revisited; The Study of Augustine's Christology in the Twentieth Century; Augustine in Translation: Achievements and Further Goals; Index