Language and Love : : Introducing Augustine's Religious Thought Through the Confessions Story / / William Mallard.
This is the first work to combine an introduction to Augustine's Confessions with a larger outline of his mature theology. Mallard provides guidance for reading the narrative Confessions (Books I-IX) and at the same time, by certain extensions and comments, reveals the three major topical divis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on the Confessions
- Introduction
- PART I: THE PATTERN OF HIS EMERGING THOUGHT
- 1 Childhood: Lost Language, Lost Baptism
- 2 Sin: Love of Evil, the Pear Tree
- 3 Happiness: Love of Wisdom, Cicero
- PART II: HIS MATURE POSITION UNFOLDS
- Section 1: Creation . . . (anti-Manichaean)
- 4 The Manichaean Life
- 5 Reality of God, Reality of Soul
- 6 Creator, Creation, Evil
- Section 2: Salvation . . . (anti-Pelagian)
- 7 Freedom as Bondage: Original Sin
- 8 The Grace of Christ as Way
- 9 Grace as Call: Christ as Lover
- Section 3: The City of God . . . (anti-Donatist, anti-Pagan)
- 10 Grace Universal: The World's New Freedom
- 11 Grace and Hope: The City of God
- Section 4: A Trinitarian Theology
- 12 Grace and Understanding: The Trinity
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Index of Citations
- Index of Topics