Augustine [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for the perplexed / / James Wetzel

• Autore: Wetzel James
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Disciplina: 189/.2
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of Works Cited; Note on Translations; Figures Invoked; Prologue: A Life Confessed; Chapter One: Death and the Delineation of Soul; Virtue Comes to Grief; Ciceronian plot; Augustinian dénouement; The Materialization of Loss; Trappings of woe; A grievable God; Chapter Two: Sin and the Invention of Will; Pathos of Will; Place of unlikeness; Debriefing on beauty; Beauty Memorialized; From Plato to Paul; The emotion of time; Chapter Three: Sex and the Infancy of Desire; The Mythology of Sin; Grace and original guilt; Adam, Eve, and the angels; Conversion ; The tie that unbinds Learning a first logos; Almost an Epilogue: Time Troubled; Suggestions Readings Chapter by Chapter; General Suggestions for Further Reading; Index; Index of Biblical References
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a student's guide to the life and work of Augustine; a notoriously challenging thinker, widely read in Philosophy and Christian Theology. The book provides a concise and coherent overview of Augustine, introducing all the key concepts and themes, and is ideal for undergraduates who require more than just a simple introduction to his work and thought.
• Titolo autorizzato: Augustine
• ISBN: 1-4411-5299-7; 1-4411-7482-6; 1-282-87595-7; 9786612875953
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465179203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Guides for the Perplexed