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Author : Joseph Clair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198757764
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 2013.
Author : Joseph Clair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191075223
Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine turns to the vast collection of moral advice found in Augustine's letters and sermons, mining these neglected and highly illuminating texts for examples of Augustine's application of his own moral concepts. It focuses on letters and sermons in which Augustine offers concrete advice on how to interact with the various goods relevant to social and political life. A special set of goods reappears throughout the letters and sermons, namely sexual intimacy and domestic life, power and public office, and wealth and private possessions. Together, these goods form the central topics of this book. Joseph Clair highlights that the most revealing cases are those in which an individual must choose between competing goods, and cases in which an individual's role and role—specific obligations inform their decisions. Such cases uncover the nimbleness of Augustine's moral reasoning in action—an artful blend of scriptural interpretation, virtue theory, and sensitivity to the circumstances of individual lives. He reveals that Augustine's understanding of the goods constitutive of social and political life is deeply indebted to the Stoic and Peripatetic doctrine of oikeiōsis, or "social appropriation". The colorful, personal, and practical details found in these writings provide a window onto Augustine's moral reasoning not available in his more theoretical treatments of the good, and the concrete cases often illustrate the human significance of properly discerning the good. Beyond providing one of the first analyses of these ethical writings, this work contributes a new sense of Augustine's ethics—both in terms of the range of questions he addresses and the manner in which he treats them.
Author : Joseph Allan Clair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 0191817678
This study considers Augustine's ethics as revealed in his sermons and letters, in which we can see the application of his moral vision in the advice given to his congregation and community.
Author : Mark J. Boone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793612038
In Augustine’s Preaching and the Healing of Desire in the Enarrationes in Psalmos, Mark J. Boone shows how Augustine expressed a Platonically informed yet distinctively Christian theology of desire, focused on the unity of Christ and the church, in these remarkable sermons and commentaries on the Psalms.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Theology
ISBN : UOM:39015056690699
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : UOM:39015060072629
Author : Jonathan D. Ryan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567694577
This book arises out of contemporary questions regarding the nature and formation of the church amidst an economically divided society. Looking to Augustine of Hippo for guidance, Jonathan D. Ryan argues that the movement from private self-interest toward common love of God and neighbor is fundamental to the church's formation and identity amidst contemporary contexts of economic inequality. Ryan demonstrates the centrality of this theme in Augustine's Sermons and his monastic instruction (principally the Rule), illustrating how it shapes his pastoral guidance on matters pertinent to economic division, including use of material resources, and attitudes toward rich and poor. By reading Augustine's Sermons alongside his monastic instruction, this volume allows for a closer understanding of how Augustine's vision of a common life is reflected in his pastoral guidance to the wider congregation. The book's concluding reflections consider what the church in our time might learn from these aspects of Augustine's teaching regarding the formation of a common life, as members are drawn together in love of God and neighbour.
Author : Michael Glowasky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004426832
In Rhetoric and Scripture in Augustine’s Homiletic Strategy, Michael Glowasky offers an account of how Augustine's pastoral concerns shape the rhetorical strategy in his Sermones ad populum.
Author : Renée Köhler-Ryan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227177501
The contemporary philosopher William Desmond has many companions in thought, and one of the most important of these is Augustine. In lucid prose that draws on the riches of a vibrant philosophical-theological tradition, Renée Köhler-Ryan explores Desmond’s metaxological philosophy. She brings together philosophy, theology and literature to elaborate on the conversation that Desmond’s philosophical work in discovering how humans are constantly ‘between’ sustains with a tradition of thinkers that also includes Plato, Thomas Aquinas and Shakespeare. Whether considering how our elemental wonder at creation brings us closer to God, or how our most intimate revelations about being human happen in the interior space of prayer, reading Desmond with Augustine illuminates a porous and interdisciplinary space of inquiry. With a foreword from Desmond himself, Companions in the Between is a unique contribution to the growing body of scholarship on his thought. Köhler-Ryan’s analysis will entice any reader who wants to know more about how contemporary philosophy can contest a space where philosophers are formulaically expected to shy away from divine transcendence.
Author : Ben Stoltzfus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666903683
D.H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective shows how Lawrence and Lacan can change beliefs and practices, oppose the Anthropocene, and restore cosmic balance. Stoltzfus brings literature and psychoanalysis together in readings that are both aesthetic and epistemological.
Author : Leonard Oshiokhamele Anetekhai
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783736962798
Augustine’s creative and allegorical thought, in his City of God, on social life is one that provides citizens of the earthly cities, especially Christians, an opportunity to understand why and how they should contribute positively to public life through faith and social responsibility. Believing that human life is social, our human social existence must transcend and go beyond social, religious and political affiliations. This requires that individuals be good and upright in their social engagements as religious and political citizens. It also entails individual rights, duties and obligations, without excluding the fight against injustice, social vice, exploitation and power abuse within human society. These sets of values and the positive outcome thereof can only be achieved through love. This love is the driving force to social peace, a love which must promote order and justice within societal life. Irrespective of its heavenly orientation, these teachings are significantly context-bound, like every theological and philosophical endeavour that concerns and connects the human person to its earthly realities. Contextualising these concepts within human existence flows from a social, religious and political assessment. It tends primarily towards moral benefits and social norms that must not lose sight of the spiritual reality, which enlightens and build good moral conscience that impacts virtues and values in society.
Author : Katherine Chambers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009383820
Augustine of Hippo is a key figure in the history of Christianity and has had a profound impact on the course of western moral and political thought. Katherine Chambers here explores a neglected topic in Augustinian studies by offering a systematic account of the meaning that Augustine gave to the notions of virtue, vice and sin. Countering the view that he broke with classical eudaimonism, she demonstrates that Augustine's moral thought builds on the dominant approach to ethics in classical 'pagan' antiquity. A critical appraisal of this tradition reveals that Augustine remained faithful to the eudaimonist approach to ethics. Chambers also refutes the view that Augustine was a political pessimist or realist, showing that it is based upon a misunderstanding of Augustine's ideas about the virtue of justice. Providing a coherent account of key features in Augustine's ethics, her study invites a new and fresh evaluation of his influence on western moral and political thought.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Adolescence
ISBN : 9781565481633
Author : Teresa Delgado,John Doody,Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498509183
This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus of writings—from his Confessions to the City of God— with an eye to the following question: how can this early church father so foundational to Christian doctrine and teaching inform our twenty-first century context on how to create and sustain a more just and equitable society? In his own day, Augustine spoke to conditions of slavery, conflict and war, violence and poverty, among many others. These conditions, while reflecting the characteristics of our technological age, continue to obstruct our collective efforts to bring about the common good for the global human community. The contributors of this volume have taken great care to read Augustine through the lens of his own time and place; at the same time, they provide keen insights and reflections which advance the conversation of social justice in the present.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363564
Preaching in the Patristic Era. Sermons, Preachers, Audiences in the Latin West offers an introduction to the field of Latin patristic preaching with attention both to general topics and individual preachers and collections of sermons.
