wyszukanych pozycji: 8
The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Re-Reading the Confessions
ISBN: 9780415288323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians.
This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it... Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent inter...
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Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology
ISBN: 9781610970099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Synopsis: In this engaging and provocative study, John Peter Kenney examines the emergence of monotheism within Greco-Roman philosophical theology by tracing the changing character of ancient realism from Plato through Plotinus. Besides acknowledging the philosophical and theological significance of such ancient thinkers as Plutarch, Numenius, Alcinous, and Atticus, he demonstrates the central importance of Plotinus in clarifying the relation of the intelligible world to divinity. Kenney focuses especially on Plotinus's novel concept of deity, arguing that it constitutes a type of mystical...
Synopsis: In this engaging and provocative study, John Peter Kenney examines the emergence of monotheism within Greco-Roman philosophical theology by ...
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139,44 zł |
Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine
ISBN: 9780198758822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After resolving to become a Catholic Christian, Augustine spent a decade trying to clarify his understanding of "contemplation," the interior presence of God to the soul. That long struggle yielded his classic account in the Confessions. This study explores Augustine's developing understanding of contemplation, beginning with his earliest accounts written before his baptism and ending with the Confessions. Chapter One examines the pagan monotheism of the Roman Platonists and the role of contemplation in their theology. Augustine's pre-baptismal writings are then considered in Chapter Two,...
After resolving to become a Catholic Christian, Augustine spent a decade trying to clarify his understanding of "contemplation," the interior presence...
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173,32 zł |
The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Re-Reading the Confessions
ISBN: 9780415288330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians.
This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it... Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent inter...
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197,05 zł |
Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine
ISBN: 9780199563708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After resolving to become a Catholic Christian, Augustine spent a decade trying to clarify his understanding of "contemplation," the interior presence of God to the soul. That long struggle yielded his classic account in the Confessions. This study explores Augustine's developing understanding of contemplation, beginning with his earliest accounts written before his baptism and ending with the Confessions. Chapter One examines the pagan monotheism of the Roman Platonists and the role of contemplation in their theology. Augustine's pre-baptismal writings are then considered in Chapter Two,...
After resolving to become a Catholic Christian, Augustine spent a decade trying to clarify his understanding of "contemplation," the interior presence...
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559,13 zł |
Christian Platonism: A History
ISBN: 9781108491983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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551,75 zł |
On God, the Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity
ISBN: 9781501313981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine's importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian thinker but as a philosophical, spiritual, literary and intellectual icon of the West. Why did the ancients come to adopt monotheism and Christianity? On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity introduces possible answers to that question by looking closely at... Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious schola... |
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134,81 zł |
On God, the Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity
ISBN: 9781501313998 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine's importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian thinker but as a philosophical, spiritual, literary and intellectual icon of the West. Why did the ancients come to adopt monotheism and Christianity? On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity introduces possible answers to that question by looking closely at... Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious schola... |
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414,96 zł |