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Author : Ian Clausen
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Release Date : 2017
ISBN 10 : 1501314238
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (131 downloads)
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Author : Ian Clausen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-11-30
ISBN 10 : 9781501314216
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (421 downloads)
Download On Love, Confession, Surrender and the Moral Self in PDF Full Online Free by Ian Clausen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. Ian Clausen's On Love, Confession, Surrender and the Moral Self describes Augustine's central ideas on morality and how he arrived at them. Describing an intellectual journey that will resonate especially with readers at the beginning of their own journey, Clausen shows that Augustine's early writing career was an outworking of his own inner turmoil and discovery, and that both were to summit, triumphantly, on his monumental book Confessions (AD 386-401). On Love, Confession, Surrender and the Moral Self offers a way of looking at Augustine's early writing career as an on-going, developing process: a process whose chief result was to shape a conception of the moral self that has lasted and prospered to the present day.
Author : Barry A. David
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-16
ISBN 10 : 9781350203266
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (326 downloads)
Download On The Confessions as 'confessio' in PDF Full Online Free by Barry A. David and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new guide to reading the Confessions, Augustine's most important work, and what is widely known as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written. The Confessions consists of thirteen books, in which Augustine outlines his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Barry David guides the reader swiftly through these complex texts, explaining the historical context, as well as the various philosophical concepts; and considers its spiritual, ecclesial and theological significance. As with other titles in the Reading Augustine series, this book presents concise introductory reading of Augustine's work from one of the leading scholars in the field.
Author : Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-20
ISBN 10 : 9781350203211
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (321 downloads)
Download On King Lear, The Confessions, and Human Experience and Nature in PDF Full Online Free by Kim Paffenroth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's Confessions and Shakespeare's King Lear are two of the most influential and enduring works of the Western canon or world literature. But what does Stratford-upon-Avon have to do with Hippo, or the ascetical heretic-fighting polemicist with the author of some of the world's most beautiful love poetry? To answer these questions, Kim Paffenroth analyses the similarities and differences between the thinking of these two figures on the themes of love, language, nature and reason. Pairing and connecting the insights of Shakespeare's most nihilist tragedy with those of Augustine's most personal and sometimes self-condemnatory, sometimes triumphal work, challenges us to see their worldviews as more similar than they first seem, and as more relevant to our own fragmented and disillusioned world.
Author : David Vincent Meconi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-11-14
ISBN 10 : 9781501326233
Pages : 185 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (623 downloads)
Download On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement, and the Vulnerable Christ in PDF Full Online Free by David Vincent Meconi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement and the Vulnerable Christ explores St. Augustine of Hippo's theology of sin, described as various forms of self-loathing and self-destruction, in addition to sin's antidote, a vulnerable relationship with the crucified Christ. Incorporating recent thinking on self-destruction and self-loathing into his reading of Augustine, David Vincent Meconi explores why we are not only allured by sin, but will actually destroy ourselves to attain it, even when we are all too well aware that this sin will bring us no true, lasting pleasure. Meconi traces the phenomena of self-destruction and self-loathing from Augustine to today. In particular, he focuses in on how self-love can turn to self-harm, and the need to provide salvage for such woundedness by surrendering to Christ, showing how Augustine's theology of sin and salvation is still crucially applicable in contemporary life and societies.
Author : John M. Rist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-11-30
ISBN 10 : 9781501307508
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (75 downloads)
Download On Ethics, Politics and Psychology in the Twenty-First Century in PDF Full Online Free by John M. Rist and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. John Rist takes the reader through Augustine's ethics, the arguments he made and how he arrived at them, and shows how this moral philosophy remains vital for us today. Rist identifies Augustine's challenge to all ideas of moral autonomy, concentrating especially on his understanding of humility as an honest appraisal of our moral state. He looks at thinkers who accept parts of Augustine's evaluation of the human condition but lapse into bleakness and pessimism since for them God has disappeared. In the concluding parts of the book, Rist suggests how a developed version of Augustine's original vision can be applied to the complexities of modern life while also laying out, on the other hand, what our moral universe would look like without Augustine's contribution to it.
Author : Todd Breyfogle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-11-30
ISBN 10 : 9781501314056
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (45 downloads)
Download On Creativity, Liberty, Love and the Beauty of the Law in PDF Full Online Free by Todd Breyfogle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Augustine presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. Todd Breyfogle's On Creativity, Liberty, Love and the Beauty of the Law introduces readers to Augustine's understanding of law as an arena in which the possibilities of creative freedom are reconciled with the needs of natural and civil order. It places Augustine's conception of law in the broader mosaic of his ideas about how human beings are bound together individually, socially, and spiritually. Seasoned readers of Augustine will see this fundamental element of his thought in a different light, even as those less familiar with Augustine are introduced to the thrill of following how he makes sense of the complexities of nature, history, and the human spirit.
Author : Ron Haflidson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-25
ISBN 10 : 9780567682727
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (272 downloads)
Download On Solitude, Conscience, Love and Our Inner and Outer Lives in PDF Full Online Free by Ron Haflidson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Haflidson places the theology of Augustine in conversation with contemporary authors, who warn of the dangers of abandoning solitude for constant (often technological) connection. Haflidson addresses an essential question that has previously been neglected: What difference does it make to the practice of solitude if one believes that even in the absence of any human company, God is always intimately present? For Augustine, solitude is a moral necessity: he recommends that we regularly retreat from the crowd into the depths of our conscience, where we can dwell alone in the company of God, and enter into dialogue before and with God about who we are and how we love. Throughout this book, Haflidson pairs close readings of Augustine with those of noted cartographers of our inner lives, literary greats including Jane Austen, George Eliot, Marilynne Robinson and George Saunders. This book explores what undiscovered possibilities may lie in solitude.
Author : Matthias Smalbrugge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-12-30
ISBN 10 : 9781501358883
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (888 downloads)
Download On Images, Visual Culture, Memory and the Play without a Script in PDF Full Online Free by Matthias Smalbrugge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthias Smalbrugge compares modern images to plays without a script: while they appear to refer to a deeper identity or reality, it is ultimately the image itself that truly matters. He argues that our modern society of images is the product of a destructive tendency in the Christian notion of the image in general, and Augustine of Hippo's in particular. This insight enables him to decode our current 'scripts' of image. As we live in an increasingly visual culture, we are constantly confronted with images that seem to exist without a deeper identity or reality but did this referential character really get lost over time? Smalbrugge first explores the roots of the modern image by analysing imagery, what it represents, and its moral state within the framework of Platonic philosophy. He then moves to the Augustinian heritage, in particular the Soliloquies, the Confessions and the Trinity, where he finds valuable insights into images and memory. He explores within the trinitarian framework the crossroads of a theology of grace and a theology based on Neoplatonic views. Smalbrugge ultimately answers two questions: what happened to the referential character of the image, and can it be recovered?
Author : Martin Claes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-10
ISBN 10 : 9781350296114
Pages : 152 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (611 downloads)
Download On Christology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science and the Human Body in PDF Full Online Free by Martin Claes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads texts of Augustine on the topic of the human body in the context of contemporary debates in philosophical theology and relevant authors from the cognitive science of religion. Martin Claes focuses particularly on Augustine's special position in the intellectual discourses of Western philosophy (free will, theodicy), theology (grace, incarnation) and humanities (anthropology, political sciences, law), arguing that his written work is an excellent point of departure for a multidimensional scholarly approach. The reading in this book shows that a different picture emerges if we make the effort to situate Augustine's mature anthropology within contemporary debates in philosophical theology and cognitive science of religion. Omnipotence, vulnerability, suffering but also purification and perfection are discussed in dialogue between patristic and philosophical theology; the human offers the clue to concepts of unity in diversity in Christ.
Author : Pablo Irizar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-13
ISBN 10 : 9781350269682
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (968 downloads)
Download On Distance, Belonging, Isolation and the Quarantined Church of Today in PDF Full Online Free by Pablo Irizar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the closure of churches during the pandemic, and therefore in the absence of a community of worship, arises the pressing theological question: what does it mean to belong 'from a distance'? Although many have reacted to this question by providing virtual alternatives for activities and by reaffirming solidarity in times of hardship, a theological response requires articulating the effects of quarantine and distancing on what it means to belong in the Church. Fundamentally, what does it mean to belong, and is it possible to belong anew after the pandemic? This book addresses these questions by carefully drawing from the thought of Augustine of Hippo, whose life and thought fittingly echoes the course of our times.
Author : Susannah Ticciati
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-27
ISBN 10 : 9780567682895
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (289 downloads)
Download On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture in PDF Full Online Free by Susannah Ticciati and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susannah Ticciati explores Augustine's scriptural interpretation, as well as the ways in which he understands the character of signs in theory. The book explores Augustine's scriptural world via three case studies, each geared towards the healing of a particular modern opposition. The three, interrelated, modern oppositions are rooted in an insufficient semiotic worldview. Ticciati argues they contribute to the alienation of the modern reader not only from Augustine's scriptural world, but more generally from the scriptural world as habitation. Examining the ways in which the therapy for our modern day semiotic illiteracy can be found in the 5th-6th-century Augustine, Ticciati brings close readings of Augustine to bear on significant concerns of our own day: specifically, our modern alienations from the rich world of Scripture.
Author : John Peter Kenney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-12-27
ISBN 10 : 9781501314001
Pages : 144 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (4 downloads)
Download On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity in PDF Full Online Free by John Peter Kenney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine's importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian thinker but as a philosophical, spiritual, literary and intellectual icon of the West. Why did the ancients come to adopt monotheism and Christianity? On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity introduces possible answers to that question by looking closely at the development of the thought of Augustine of Hippo, whose complex spiritual trajectory included Gnosticism, academic skepticism, pagan Platonism, and orthodox Christianity. What was so compelling about Christianity and how did Augustine become convinced that his soul could enter into communion with a transcendent God? The apparently sudden shift of ancient culture to monotheism and Christianity was momentous, defining the subsequent nature of Western religion and thought. John Peter Kenney shows us that Augustine offers an unusually clear vantage point to understand the essential ideas that drove that transition.
Author : Peter Iver Kaufman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12-10
ISBN 10 : 9781350191495
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (149 downloads)
Download On Agamben, Donatism, Pelagianism, and the Missing Links in PDF Full Online Free by Peter Iver Kaufman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Iver Kaufman shows that, although Giorgio Agamben represents Augustine as an admired pioneer of an alternative form of life, he also considers Augustine an obstacle keeping readers from discovering their potential. Kaufman develops a compelling, radical alternative to progressive politics by continuing the line of thought he introduced in On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity, and the Dark Arts of Civilization. Kaufman starts with a comparison of Agamben and Augustine's projects, both of which challenge reigning concepts of citizenship. He argues that Agamben, troubled by Augustine's opposition to Donatists and Pelagians, failed to forge links between his own redefinitions of authenticity and “the coming community” and the bishop's understandings of grace, community, and compassion. On Agamben, Donatism, Pelagianism, and the Missing Links sheds new light on Augustine's “political theology,” introducing ways it can be used as a resource for alternative polities while supplementing Agamben's scholarship and scholarship on Agamben.
Author : Carol Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-06-13
ISBN 10 : 9781501326271
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (627 downloads)
Download On Music, Sense, Affect and Voice in PDF Full Online Free by Carol Harrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores early reflections on music and its effects on the mind and soul. Augustine is an obvious choice for such an analysis, as his De Musica is the only treatise on music by a Christian writer in the first five centuries AD; concerned not only with poetic metre and rhythm, but also with an ontology of music. Focusing on the six books of De Musica, the Confessions and the Homilies on the Psalms, Carol Harrison argues that Augustine establishes a psychology, ethics and aesthetics of musical perception, which considered together form an effective theology of music. For Augustine, music-both heard and performed- becomes the means by which we can sense and participate in divine grace. Composed by one of the world's foremost Augustine scholars, this book is a concise and powerful exploration of Augustine's writing and reflections on music and, by extension, the intimate relationship between music, religion, and philosophy.
Author : Mark Clavier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-11-29
ISBN 10 : 9781501330957
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (95 downloads)
Download On Consumer Culture, Identity, the Church and the Rhetorics of Delight in PDF Full Online Free by Mark Clavier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reading Augustine series presents short, engaging books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo's contributions to western philosophical, literary, and religious life. Mark Clavier's On Consumer Culture, Identity, The Church and the Rhetorics of Delight draws on Augustine of Hippo to provide a theological explanation for the success of marketing and consumer culture. Augustine's thought, rooted in rhetorical theory, presents a brilliant understanding of the experiences of damnation and salvation that takes seriously the often hidden psychology of human motivation. Clavier examines how Augustine's keen insight into the power of delight over personal notions of freedom and self-identity can be used to shed light on how the constant lure of promised happiness shapes our identities as consumers. From Augustine's perspective, it is only by addressing the sources of delight within consumerism and by rediscovering the wellsprings of God's delight that we can effectively challenge consumer culture. To an age awash with commercial rhetoric, the fifth-century Bishop of Hippo offers a theological rhetoric that is surprisingly contemporary and insightful.
Author : Peter Iver Kaufman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-10-17
ISBN 10 : 9780567682819
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (281 downloads)
Download On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity, and the Dark Arts of Civilization in PDF Full Online Free by Peter Iver Kaufman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many progressives have found passages in Augustine's work that suggest he entertained hopes for meaningful political melioration in his time. They also propose that his “political theology” could be an especially valuable resource for “an ethics of democratic citizenship” or for “hopeful citizenship” in our times. Peter Kaufman argues that Augustine's “political theology” offers a compelling, radical alternative to progressive politics. He chronicles Augustine's experiments with alternative polities, and pairs Augustine's criticisms of political culture with those of Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt. This book argues that the perspectives of pilgrims (Augustine), refugees (Agamben), and pariahs (Arendt) are better staging areas than the perspectives and virtues associated with citizenship-and better for activists interested in genuine political innovation rather than renovation. Kaufman revises the political legacy of Augustine, aiming to influence interdisciplinary conversations among scholars of late antiquity and twenty-first century political theorists, ethicists, and practitioners.
