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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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Named Person: Augustine, Saint Bishop of Hippo.; Augustin, saint évêque d'Hippone.; Augustin, (saint ;
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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