For the Joy Set Before Us: Augustine & Self-Denying Love

ISBN-13: 9780268028589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 266 str.

Gerald W. Schlabach

Opis

Examining how Augustine reconciled self-love and self-denial in a unified Christian love, this book demonstrates the crucial role that continence played in Augustine's teaching, showing it to be more than an attitude toward sexuality; rather it is the operative mode of Augustininan caritas.