Augustine on Evil

ISBN-13: 9780521397438 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 216 str.

G. R. Evans

Opis

Augustine, perhaps the most important and most widely read Father of the Church, first became preoccupied with the problem of evil in his boyhood, and this preoccupation continued throughout his life. Augustine's ideas about evil were to mark out the boundaries of the problem for those who came after him; his influence was greater and more widespread than any other early Christian thinker and is still of importance both with those who agree with him and with those who do not. Augustine's personality, so loveably and intricately revealed in his Confessions, has always made him a figure of intense interest.

Recenzje

'The author presents the most coherent analysis of Augustine's theodicy that I have seen, clearer perhaps than Augustine was able to achieve himself.' Church History

Spis treści

Preface; 1. The experience of evil; 2. The problem presents itself; 3. Evil in the mind; 4. Evil in the universe; 5. The antidote to evil; 6. Becoming and being good; 7. The divine imperative; Notes; Bibliography; Index.