Striving With Grace : : Views of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon England / / Aaron J Kleist.

The question of whether or not our decisions and efforts make a difference in an uncertain and uncontrollable world had enormous significance for writers in Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace looks at seven authors who wrote either in Latin or Old English, and the ways in which they sought to...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2008
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. A Doctrine Defined: The Influence of Augustine
  • 2. Cooperating with Grace: Gregory the Great, Apostle to the English
  • 3. Meriting Grace: The Venerable Bede
  • 4. Alfred the Great and the Old English Boethius
  • 5. Lantfred of Winchester and the Carmen de libero arbitrio
  • 6. Wulfstan the Homilist and De adiutorio Dei et libero arbitrio
  • 7. Ælfric of Eynsham and the Sermones catholici
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I: Patristic Texts in Paul the Deacon and Smaragdus
  • Appendix II: Bede's Homiliae - Editions and Parallels to In Lucae and In Marci euangelium expositio
  • Appendix III: Primary Texts
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter