The Spirit Of Augustine S Early Theology

Author : Mr Chad Tyler Gerber
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409481751

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The Spirit of Augustine's Early Theology by Mr Chad Tyler Gerber Pdf

St Augustine's pneumatology remains one of his most distinctive, decisive, and ultimately divisive contributions to the story of Christian thought. How did his understanding of the Spirit develop? Why does he identity the Spirit with divine love and cosmic order? And from what personal and literary sources did he receive inspiration? This examination of Augustine's pneumatology - the first book-length study of this important topic available - seeks answers in Augustine's earliest extant writings, penned during the years surrounding his famed return to the Catholic Church and the height of his efforts to synthesize Catholic theology and the Platonic philosophy of his day which had postulated a divine 'trinity' of its own. Careful analysis of these initial texts casts fresh light upon Augustine's more mature and well-known theology of the Holy Spirit while also illuminating on-going discussions about his early thought such as the nature and extent of his Platonic sympathies and the possibility that the recent convert remained committed to the divinity of the human soul.

Author : Chad Tyler Gerber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317014898

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The Spirit of Augustine's Early Theology by Chad Tyler Gerber Pdf

St Augustine's pneumatology remains one of his most distinctive, decisive, and ultimately divisive contributions to the story of Christian thought. How did his understanding of the Spirit develop? Why does he identity the Spirit with divine love and cosmic order? And from what personal and literary sources did he receive inspiration? This examination of Augustine's pneumatology - the first book-length study of this important topic available - seeks answers in Augustine's earliest extant writings, penned during the years surrounding his famed return to the Catholic Church and the height of his efforts to synthesize Catholic theology and the Platonic philosophy of his day which had postulated a divine 'trinity' of its own. Careful analysis of these initial texts casts fresh light upon Augustine's more mature and well-known theology of the Holy Spirit while also illuminating on-going discussions about his early thought such as the nature and extent of his Platonic sympathies and the possibility that the recent convert remained committed to the divinity of the human soul.

Author : Ryan N. S. Topping
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813219738

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Happiness and Wisdom by Ryan N. S. Topping Pdf

Happiness and Wisdom contributes to ongoing debates about the nature of Augustine's early development, and argues that Augustine's vision of the soul's ascent through the liberal arts is an attractive and basically coherent view of learning, which, while not wholly novel, surpasses both classical and earlier patristic renderings of the aims of education.

Author : Gerald P. Boersma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190493509

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Augustine's Early Theology of Image by Gerald P. Boersma Pdf

What does it mean for Christ to be the "image of God"? And, if Christ is the "image of God," can the human person also unequivocally be understood to be the "image of God"? Augustine's Early Theology of Image examines Augustine's conception of the imago dei and makes the case that it represents a significant departure from the Latin pro-Nicene theologies of Hilary of Poitiers, Marius Victorinus, and Ambrose of Milan only a generation earlier. Augustine's predecessors understood the imago dei principally as a Christological term designating the unity of divine substance. But, Gerald P. Boersma argues, Augustine affirms that Christ is an image of equal likeness, while the human person is an image of unequal likeness. Boersma's careful study thus argues that a Platonic and participatory evaluation of the nature of "image" enables Augustine's early theology of the image of God to move beyond that of his Latin predecessors and affirm the imago dei both of Christ and of the human person.

Author : Bart van Egmond
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198834922

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Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement by Bart van Egmond Pdf

Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement considers the relationship between Augustine's account of God's judgement and his theology of grace in his early works. How does God use his law and the penal consequences of its transgression in the service of his grace, both personally and through his 'agents' on earth? Augustine reflected on this question from different perspectives. As a teacher and bishop, he thought about the nature of discipline and punishment in the education of his pupils, brothers, and congregants. As a polemicist against the Manichaeans and as a biblical expositor, he had to grapple with issues regarding God's relationship to evil in the world, the violence God displays in the Old Testament, and in the death of his own Son. Furthermore, Augustine meditated on the way God's judgment and grace related in his own life, both before and after his conversion. Bart van Egmond follows the development of Augustine's early thought on judgement and grace from the Cassiacum writings to the Confessions. The argument is contextualized both against the background of the earlier Christian tradition of reflection on the providential function of divine chastisement, and the tradition of psychagogy that Augustine inherited from a variety of rhetorical and philosophical sources. This study expertly contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion on the development of Augustine's doctrine of grace, and to the conversation on the theological roots of his justification of coercion against the Donatists.

Author : Gerald P. Boersma,Gerald Boersma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190251369

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Augustine's Early Theology of Image by Gerald P. Boersma,Gerald Boersma Pdf

The question of what it means for Christ to be the "image of God," or imago dei, lies at the heart of the Christological debates of the fourth century. In this book, Gerald P. Boersma examines three Western pro-Nicene theologies of the imago dei, which tackle the question of whether human beings and Christ can both be considered to be the "image of God." Boersma goes on to examine Augustine's early theology of the imago dei, prior to his ordination (386-391). He argues that although Augustine's early theology of image builds on that of Hilary of Poitiers, Marius Victorinus, and Ambrose of Milan, Augustine was able to affirm, in ways that his predecessors were not, how both Christ and the human person can be considered the imago dei.

Author : Carol Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191535888

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Rethinking Augustine's Early Theology by Carol Harrison Pdf

Carol Harrison counters the assumption that Augustine of Hippo's (354-430) theology underwent a revolutionary transformation around the time he was consecrated Bishop in 396. Instead, she argues that there is a fundamental continuity in his thought and practice from the moment of his conversion in 386. The book thereby challenges the general scholarly trend to begin reading Augustine with his Confessions (396), which were begun ten years after his conversion, and refocuses attention on his earlier works, which undergird his whole theological system.

Author : David C. Alexander
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1433101033

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Augustine's Early Theology of the Church by David C. Alexander Pdf

The nature and development of Augustine's understanding of the church between his conversion (386) and his forced entry into the clergy (391) provides an essential lens to understanding this seminal period of transition and the foundations of his future ecclesial contributions. Even so, most studies of Augustine's ecclesiology bypass this period, starting with the clerical Augustine (post 391). In fact, research on the 'young' Augustine and the Confessions too often stalls over debates between his neo-Platonic or Christian orientation, focusing on dichotomies in Augustine or an individualistic Augustine too rigidly labeled. This book helps fill these gaps and provides a case study supporting arguments for continuity between the 'young' and the clerical Augustine. A careful chronological textual approach to Augustine's early Christian years demonstrates how his ecclesiological thought began during this period and comprised a core component of his first theological synthesis. The emergence of his ecclesiological ideas was intimately intertwined with his overall personal, religious, philosophic, and theological development. As such it is crucial to our biographical and theological understanding of the great North African and will be of interest to specialists and students alike of Augustine's development, Confessions, mature ecclesiology, and the late antique world.

Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565482883

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The Works of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine Pdf

Discusses Saint Augustine's ten homilies on the First Epistle of John, which are among his most influential works. This title uses John's epistle as a point of departure for exploring the meaning and implications of love with profundity, passion and analytic rigour.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594733260

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Saint Augustine of Hippo by Anonim Pdf

The restless heart and searching mind of this influential early church father can offer spiritual and intellectual companionship for your spiritual journey. Augustine of Hippo (354–430), theologian, priest, and bishop, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He is known as much for his long interior struggle that ended with conversion and baptism at age thirty-two as for his influential teachings on human will, original sin and the theology of just war. Cherished as a model for the pursuit of a life of spiritual grace and criticized for his theory of predestination, Augustine is recognized as a living expression of the passion to understand and communicate the deeper meanings of human experience. With fresh translations drawn from Augustine's voluminous writings and probing facing-page commentary, Augustinian scholar Joseph T. Kelley, PhD, provides insight into the mind and heart of this foundational Christian figure. Kelley illustrates how Augustine’s keen intellect, rhetorical skill and passionate faith reshaped the theological language and dogmatic debates of early Christianity. He explores the stormy religious arguments and political upheavals of the fifth century, Augustine’s controversial teachings on predestination, sexuality and marriage, and the deep undercurrents of Augustine’s spiritual quest that still inspire Christians today.

Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo,Aeterna Press
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On the Trinity by Saint Augustine of Hippo,Aeterna Press Pdf

The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason. Now one class of such men endeavor to transfer to things incorporeal and spiritual the ideas they have formed, whether through experience of the bodily senses, or by natural human wit and diligent quickness, or by the aid of art, from things corporeal; so as to seek to measure and conceive of the former by the latter. Aeterna Press

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019348859

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The Life of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441240453

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The Theology of Augustine by Matthew Levering Pdf

Most theology students realize Augustine is tremendously influential on the Christian tradition as a whole, but they generally lack real knowledge of his writings. This volume introduces Augustine's theology through seven of his most important works. Matthew Levering begins with a discussion of Augustine's life and times and then provides a full survey of the argument of each work with bibliographical references for those who wish to go further. Written in clear, accessible language, this book offers an essential introduction to major works of Augustine that all students of theology--and their professors!--need to know.

Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082710990

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On Christian Teaching by Saint Augustine Pdf

On Christian Teaching (or De Doctrina Christiana) is one of Augustine's most important works on the Christian tradition. Undertaken at the same time as the Confessions, it was written to enable students of Christianity to be their own interpreters of the Bible. In so doing Augustine provides an outline of Christian theology, a detailed discussion of ethical problems, and a fascinating early contribution to sign theory. He also makes a systematic attempt to determine what elements of classical `pagan' education are permissible for a Christian. This long-needed, up-to-date translation gives a close but stylish representation of Augustine's thought and expression.

Author : St. Augustine
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679641940

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The Confessions of Saint Augustine by St. Augustine Pdf

'The reader who has never met Augustine before ought to go first of all to the Confessions,' reflected the Trappist monk and scholar Thomas Merton. 'Augustine lived the theology that he wrote. . . . He experienced the reality of Christ living in his own soul.' Saint Augustine, the celebrated theologian who served as Bishop of Hippo from A.D. 396 until his death in A.D. 430, is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the Western world. Written in the form of a long prayer addressed directly to God, Augustine's Confessions, the remarkable chronicle of his conversion to Christianity, endures as the greatest spiritual autobiography of all time. 'Augustine possessed a strong, capacious, argumentative mind,' wrote Edward Gibbon. 'He boldly sounded the dark abyss of grace, predestination, free-will, and original sin.' And the eminent historian Jaroslav Pelikan remarked: 'There has, quite literally, been no century of the sixteen centuries since the conversion of Augustine in which he has not been a major intellectual, spiritual, and cultural force.'