On God, the soul, evil and the rise of Christianity:
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 the development of the thought of Augustine of Hippo, whose complex spiritual trajectory included Gnosticism, academic skepticism, pagan Platonism, and orthodox Christianity. What was so compelling about Christianity and how did Augustine become convinced that his soul could enter into communion with a transcendent God? The apparently sudden shift of ancient culture to monotheism and Christianity was momentous, defining the subsequent nature of Western religion and thought. John Peter Kenney shows us that Augustine offers an unusually clear vantage point to understand the essential ideas that drove that transition |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface ix
Introduction: Reading Augustine l
1 Christian Enlightenment 9
Varieties of Christianity 10
Pagan Monotheism 19
Immaterial Truth 25
2 God 37
Soliloquies 39
Eternal Wisdom 48
Contemplation and the God of Augustine 56
3 The Soul 63
Confessional Introspection 64
The Cursive Self 71
Transcendence of the Soul 78
4 Evil 87
Contemporary Theodicy 87
Confessing Evil 92
Scattered Traces of His Being 99
viii
CONTENTS
5 The Rise of Christianity 107
Deification 107
Beatitude 113
Contemplative Christianity 118
Bibliography 123
Index 130
ON
GOD, THE
SOUL,
EVIL
AND THE
RISE
OF
CHRISTIANITY
ADDRESSES
HOW MONOTHEISM AND
CHRISTIANITY EMERGED IN
IATE
ANTIQUITY.
IT
DOES
SO
BY
LOOKING
CLOSELY
AT THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF
THE
THOUGHT
OF AUGUSTINE
OF
HIPPO,
WHOSE COMPLEX SPIRITUAL
TRAJECTORY
INCLUDED
GNOSTICISM,
ACADEMIC
SKEPTICISM,
PAGAN PLATONISM,
AND
ORTHODOX
CHRISTIANITY.
JOHN
PETER KENNEY
EXAMINES
WHAT
AUGUSTINE
FOUND
COMPELLING
ABOUT
CHRISTIANITY,
AND
WHY
HE
BECAME
CONVINCED
THAT
HIS
SOUL
COULD
ENTER
INTO
COMMUNION
WITH
A
TRANSCENDENT
GOD.
THE
APPARENTLY
SUDDEN SHIFT OF ANCIENT CULTURE TO MONOTHEISM
AND
CHRISTIANITY WAS
MOMENTOUS,
DEFINING
THE SUBSEQUENT
NATURE
OF WESTERN
RELIGION
AND
THOUGHT.
AS
A
LEADING
AUGUSTINIAN
SCHOLAR,
KENNEY
EXPLAINS
THE
BASIC
TENETS OF AUGUSTINE S SPIRITUAL AND
PHILOSOPHICAL
DEVELOPMENT
AND
ILLUSTRATES HOW
HE
PROVIDES
AN
UNUSUALLY
CLEAR
VANTAGE
POINT
TO UNDERSTAND THE
ESSENTIAL IDEAS
THAT
DROVE
THAT
TRANSITION.
SO
PERVASIVE
IS
THE INFLUENCE OF AUGUSTINE
THAT
FEW
HAVE
THE
IMAGINATION
TO
SEE
HIM
WITH
FRESH
EYES.
JOHN
PETER KENNEY,
A
THOROUGHLY
MODERN THINKER
WITH
AN
ENVIABLE KNOWLEDGE OF
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
AND
THE
CHURCH
FATHERS, DRAWS
ON
AUGUSTINE TO HELP CONTEMPORARY
READERS
SEE
THE
STRANGENESS
OF GOD
AND
THE
FOLLY
OF APPROACHING GOD
AS
A
SPECTATOR.
THIS
IS
A
BOOK
THAT
INVITES CONTEMPLATION.
ROBERT
LOUIS WILKEN,
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA,
USA
JOHN
PETER
KENNEY
IS PROFESSOR
OF
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
AT
SAINT MICHAEL S COLLEGE, USA.
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