Augustine's City of God : a critical guide / edited by James Wetzel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wetzel, James, editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical guides.

Cambridge critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. De civitate Dei.

Augustine.

Kingdom of God.

Apologetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The history of the book : Augustine's City of God and post-Roman cultural memory / Mark Vessey

Secularity and the saeculum / Paul J. Griffiths

Augustine's dystopia / Peter Iver Kaufman

From rape to resurrection : sin, sexual difference, and politics / Margaret R. Miles

Ideology and solidarity in Augustine's City of God / John Cavadini

The theater of the virtues : Augustine's critique of pagan mimesis / Jennifer Herdt

The psychology of compassion : Stoicism in City of God 9.5 / Sarah Byers

Augustine's rejection of eudaimonism / Nicholas Wolterstorff

Augustine on the origin of evil : myth and metaphysics / James Wetzel

Hell and the dilemmas of intractable alienation / John Bowlin

On the nature and worth of Christian philosophy : evidence from the City of God / John Rist

Reinventing Ausustine's ethics : the afterlife of City of God / Bonnie Kent.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88785-8

1-139-57909-6

1-139-56867-1

1-139-57314-4

1-139-01414-5

1-139-57048-X

1-139-57224-5

1-283-71623-2

1-139-56958-9

OCLC:

817870322