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Evil and the Augustinian tradition
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Evil and the Augustinian tradition

Author: Charles T Mathewes
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Recent scholarship has focused attention on the difficulties that evil, suffering, and tragic conflict present to religious belief and moral life. Thinkers have drawn upon many important historical figures, with one significant exception - Augustine. At the same time, there has been a renaissance of work on Augustine, but little discussion of either his work on evil or his influence on contemporary thought.".
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Named Person: Augustine, Saint Bishop of Hippo.; Augustin, saint évêque d'Hippone.; Augustin, (saint ;; Augustin <saint , 0354-0430>
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Charles T Mathewes
ISBN: 0521807158 9780521807159
OCLC Number: 46565134
Description: xii, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments --
List of abbreviations --
Introduction : reaching disagreement --
PART I. Preliminaries : evil and the Augustinian tradition --
1. Modernity and evil --
2. The Augustinian tradition and its discontents --
PART II. Genealogy : remembering the Augustinian tradition --
3. Sin as perversion : Reinhold Niebuhr's Augustinian psychology --
4. Evil as privation : Hannah Arendt's Augustinian ontology --
PART III. The challenge of the Augustinian tradition to evil --
5. Demythologizing evil --
Conclusion : realizing incomprehension, discerning mystery --
Works cited --
Index.
Responsibility: Charles T. Mathewes.
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