Rethinking Augustine's Early Theology: An Argument for Continuity

ISBN-13: 9780199281664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 318 str.

Harrison

Opis

Carol Harrison counters the assumption that Augustine of Hippo's (354-430) theology underwent a revolutionary transformation around the time he was consecrated Bishop in 396. Instead, she argues that there is a fundamental continuity in his thought and practice from the moment of his conversion in 386. The book thereby challenges the general scholarly trend to begin reading Augustine with his Confessions (396), which were begun ten years after his conversion, and refocuses attention on his earlier works, which undergird his whole theological system.

Recenzje

a valuable corrective ... her re-assertion of elements of continuity is welcome.

O autorze

Carol Harrison is Lecturer in the History and Theology of the Latin West, Durham University.