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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825947403321

Autore

Aers David

Titolo

Salvation and sin [[electronic resource] ] : Augustine, Langland, and fourteenth-century theology / / David Aers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009

ISBN

0-268-07463-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

230/.24209023

Soggetti

Salvation - Christianity - History of doctrines

Sin - Christianity - History of doctrines

Theology - England - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Augustinian prelude : conversion and agency -- Illustrating "modern theology" : sin and salvation in Ockham -- Thomas Bradwardine : reflections on De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum -- Remembering the Samaritan, remembering Semyuief : salvation and sin in Piers Plowman (the C version) -- Sin, reconciliation, and redemption : Augustine and Julian of Norwich.

Sommario/riassunto

Salvation and Sin explores various modes of displaying the relationship between divine and human agency and the consequences of sin in fourteenth-century literature.