Augustine’s Cyprian

2016-03-17
Religion

Author: Matthew Alan Gaumer

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9004312641

Category: Religion

Page: 403

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Augustine’s Cyprian retraces the demise of Donatist Christianity in ancient North Africa. Set during the Roman Empire’s collapse, this work accounts how Augustine of Hippo initiated one of the most prolific re-appropriations of authority in ancient Christianity: Cyprian of Carthage.

Augustine's Confessions

2006-03-28
Philosophy

Author: William E. Mann

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN: 0742570983

Category: Philosophy

Page: 252

View: 7575


Unique in all of literature, the Confessions combines frank and profound psychological insight into Augustine's formative years along with sophisticated and beguiling reflections on some of the most important issues in philosophy and theology. The essays contained in this volume, by some of the most distinguished recent and contemporary thinkers in the field, insightfully explore Augustinian themes not only with an eye to historical accuracy but also to gauge the philosophical acumen of Augustine's reflections.

Augustine's Theory of Signs, Signification, and Lying

2020-01-20
Religion

Author: Remo Gramigna

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 3110596628

Category: Religion

Page: 246

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The aim of this study is to present, as far as possible, a general description of the theory of the sign and signification in Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), with a view to its evaluation and implications for the study of semiotics. Accurate studies for subject, discipline, and significance have not yet given an organic and systematic vision of Augustine’s theory of the sign. The underlying aspiration is that such an endeavour will prove to be beneficial to the scholars of Augustine’s thought as well as to those with a keen interest in the history of semiotics. The study uses Augustine’s own accounts to investigate and interpret the philosophical problem of the sign. The focus lies on the first decade of Augustine’s literary production. The De dialectica, is taken as the terminus ad quo of the study, and the De doctrina christiana is the terminus ad quem. The selected texts show an explicit engagement with poignant discussion on the nature and structure of the sign, the variety of signs and their uses. Although Augustine’s intention never was to establish a theory of meaning as an independent field of study, he largely employed a theory of signs. Thus, Augustine’s approach to signs is intrinsically meaningful.

Augustine's City of God

2012-10-04
Philosophy

Author: James Wetzel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1139576445

Category: Philosophy

Page: N.A

View: 8447


Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of those themes, using the central, contested distinction between a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage and an earthly city bound for perdition to elaborate aspects of Augustine's political and moral vision. Topics discussed include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, his departure from classical eudaimonism, his mythology of sin, his dystopian politics, his surprising attention to female bodies, his moral psychology, his valorisation of love, his critique of empire and his conception of a Christian philosophy. Together the essays advance our understanding of Augustine's most influential work and provide a rich overview of Augustinian political theology and its philosophical implications.

Augustine's Photocopied Error

2008
Religion

Author: Ian Traill

Publisher: Traillblazer Bookshop

ISBN: 1931178534

Category: Religion

Page: 240

View: 3835


Traill examines the issue of why God put Adam and Eve out of the Garden. He asks whether it because of the eating of the fruit of disobedience or if there is more to the picture.
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