Augustine and the cure of souls : revising a classical ideal / / Paul R. Kolbet.
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| Superior document: | Christianity and Judaism in antiquity series ; v. 17 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Christianity and Judaism in antiquity ;
v. 17. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 342 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Rhetoric and Christian identity in the Roman Empire : sources and method
- A classical ideal
- Classical therapy : its origins, tasks, and methods
- Psychagogy as a cultural ideal
- Psychagogy in its classical form
- Hellenistic refinements
- Cures for the Roman soul
- The psychagogic value of ancient texts
- Revising and recontextualizing classical therapy
- Augustine's early formation
- An ambitious young orator
- Being healed by beautiful words
- Christianizing classical therapy
- Christian philosophy and the cure of soul
- Christ's inner and outer rhetoric
- A new context for classical therapy
- Ordination crisis
- Controversies over the cure of soul
- Signs eliciting love
- Exegetical integration
- Teaching the uninstructed
- Augustine's homiletical practice
- The Christian rhetor
- Continuity amid discontinuity
- Critical skills
- Constructive guidance
- Therapy and society
- The incarnate word and community.