Language and love : introducing Augustine's religious thought through the Confessions story / William Mallard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mallard, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.

Augustine.

Physical Description:

xii, 252 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1994]

Summary:

This is the first work to combine an introduction to Augustine's Confessions with a larger outline of his mature theology. Mallard provides guidance for reading the narrative Confessions (Books I-IX) and at the same time, by certain extensions and comments, reveals the three major topical divisions within Augustine's thought: creation, salvation, and the City of God. Mallard is able to do this because Augustine's affirmation of the good of Creation, his view of the human will and God's grace (and the nature of evil), his sense of a religious people's identity and their hope, and his view of faith and reason were all essentially in place at the time of the Confessions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-238) and indexes.

ISBN:

0271010371 :

027101038X

OCLC:

28376911