On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity

John Peter Kenney (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-1398-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

Preface
Introduction: Reading Augustine
1. Christian Enlightenment
Varieties of Christianity
Pagan Monotheism
Immaterial Truth
2. God
Soliloquies
Eternal Wisdom
Contemplation and the God of Augustine
3. The Soul
Confessional Introspection
The Cursive Self
Transcendence of the Soul
4. Evil
Contemporary Theodicy
Confessing Evil
‘Scattered Traces of His Being’
5. The Rise of Christianity
Deification
Beatitude
Contemplative Christianity
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Reading Augustine
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5013-1398-3 / 1501313983
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-1398-1 / 9781501313981
Zustand	Neuware