Evil and the Augustinian tradition / Charles T. Mathewes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathewes, Charles T., 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Augustine.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Evil & the Augustinian Tradition

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This explores the 'family biography' of the Augustinian tradition by looking at Augustine's work and its development in the writings of Hannah Arendt and Reinhold Niebuhr. Mathewes argues that the Augustinian tradition offers us a powerful, though commonly misconstrued, proposal for understanding and responding to evil's challenges. The book casts light on Augustine, Niebuhr and Arendt, as well as on the problem of evil, the nature of tradition, and the role of theological and ethical discourse in contemporary thought.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12443-3

1-280-41924-5

0-511-17429-2

0-511-04187-X

0-511-15405-4

0-511-32518-5

0-511-48778-9

0-511-04437-2

OCLC:

559458780