Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized

by John M. Rist

• ISBN13: 9780521589529
• ISBN10: 0521589525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This major work constitutes a significant attempt to provide a detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine's thought as a whole. It describes the transformation of Greco-Roman philosophy into the version that was to become the most influential in the history of Western thought. Augustine weighed some of the major themes of classical philosophy and ancient culture against the truth he found in the Bible and Catholic tradition, and reformulated these in Christian dress.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi	(1)
List of abbreviations	xii	(2)
Works of Augustine	xiv	(3)
Notes on chronology	xvii	(2)
Bibliographical note	xix
1 Approaching Augustine	1	(22)
2 Words, signs and things	23	(18)
3 Certainty, belief and understanding	41	(51)
4 Soul, body and personal identity	92	(56)
5 Will, love and right action	148	(55)
6 Individuals, social institutions and political life	203	(53)
7 Evil, justice and divine omnipotence	256	(34)
8 Augustinus redivivus	290	(24)
Appendix 1 Porphyry's account of the sentence in the De Magistro	314	(3)
Appendix 2 Traducianism, creationism and the transmission of original sin	317	(4)
Appendix 3 Augustine and Julian: aspects of the debate about sexual concupiscentia	321	(7)
Index of modern authors	328	(3)
General index	331