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| Named Person: | Augustine, Saint Bishop of Hippo.; Plotinus.; Augustine, Saint Archbishop of Canterbury; Augustin, saint évêque d'Hippone |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Phillip Cary |
| ISBN: | 0195132068 9780195132069 019515861X 9780195158618 |
| OCLC Number: | 40912653 |
| Description: | xvii, 214 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The kinship of soul and Platonic form -- Identity from Aristotle to Plotinus -- Augustine reads Plotinus -- Problems of Christina Platonism -- Inward turn and intellectual vision -- Explorations of divine reason -- An abandoned proof -- Change of mind -- Inner privacy and fallen embodiment -- The origin of inner space. |
| Responsibility: | Phillip Cary. |
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<br>"Others have long said that certain notions of 'self' had their origin in Augustine, but Cary's study is much more precise. He describes developments in the great bishop's thought with precision and careful documentation, and his general arguments deserve a wide hearing."--BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, July-September 2002<p><br>"The book is complex, carefully argued, helpfully outlined in chapter summaries and mercifully well cross-referenced. It leaves one grateful for a profounder acquaintance with Augustine's thought and heritage."--IJournal of the American Academy of Religion<p><br>"A challenging, thoughtful book. Cary writes extremely well: his prose is lean and extraordinarily lucid, his style informal yet serious, his authorial persona gracious and self-effacing, his efforts at fair judgement admirable."--Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality<p><br>."..a first-rate study of the influences on the great bishop and the innovations he made to his intellectual/spiritual inheritance."--Theology Today<p><br>"A valuable and important book, both for those interested in Augustine's thought, and for those wanting, as Augustine wanted, to think Christian thoughts about matters of philosophical interest...[Cary's] richly textured depiction of how a particular Christian at a particular time--Augustine at the end of the fourth century--actually thought, has some important lessons to teach"--Faith and Philosophy, Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers<p><br>." . . a rich book that offers genuinely fresh material. It should be of interest to all students of Augustine and the classical heritage of Christianity."--Journal of Religion<p><br> Read more...
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- Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
- Soul -- Christianity.
- Plotinus.
- Augustine, -- Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury -- Contributions in doctrine of soul.
- Augustin, -- saint, évêque d'Hippone -- Et l'âme.
- Âme -- Histoire des doctrines -- ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
- Zelf.
- Godskennis.
- Platonisme.
