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On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity: Reading Augustine

Autor John Peter Kenney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 dec 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501313981
ISBN-10: 1501313983
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Reading Augustine

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

A compelling account of the rapid shift of ancient culture to monotheism and Christianity, a momentous shift that defined the subsequent nature of Western religion and thought

Notă biografică

John Peter Kenney is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Michael's College, USA. He was previously Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College and then Dean of the College at Saint Michael's. He is the author of Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology (1991), The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions (2005) and Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine (2013).

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroduction: Reading Augustine1. Christian Enlightenment Varieties of Christianity Pagan Monotheism Immaterial Truth2. God Soliloquies Eternal Wisdom Contemplation and the God of Augustine3. The Soul Confessional Introspection The Cursive Self Transcendence of the Soul4. Evil Contemporary Theodicy Confessing Evil 'Scattered Traces of His Being'5. The Rise of ChristianityDeification Beatitude Contemplative ChristianityBibliography

Recenzii

Kenney's work is notable. It touches upon areas which students and scholars studying Saint Augustine, the late Roman Empire, Constantine, or any related fields would find interesting. Kenney's work would be welcome in the library of any institution which focuses upon these areas of study.
Kenney is very helpful in prompting thought about the way in which transcendence-for Augustine as well as for the broader mainstream Christian theological tradition-is nestled together with these other themes.
So pervasive is the influence of Augustine that few have the imagination to see him with fresh eyes. John Peter Kenney, a thoroughly modern thinker with an enviable knowledge of ancient philosophy and the church fathers, draws on Augustine to help contemporary readers see the strangeness of God and the folly of approaching God as a spectator. This is a book that invites contemplation.