Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions

ISBN-13: 9780199274857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 270 str.

Karla Pollmann; Mark Vessey

Opis

Augustine and the Disciplines takes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became the focus of medieval culture in the West. Augustine himself became increasingly aware that an ambivalent attitude towards knowledge and learning was inherent in Christianity. By facing the intellectual challenge posed by this tension he arrived at a new theory of how to interpret the Bible correctly.

Recenzje

The chief value of this collection of essays consists in the variety of exemplary methods, historical, philological, philosophical, which are employed to study the shift in Augustine's attitudes to the liberal arts between AD 386 and 396 and the larger question of his place in the history of western liberal arts.

O autorze

Karla Pollmann is Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading. Mark Vessey is Professor of English, University of British Columbia.