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Augustine's City of God : a critical guide /

"Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wetzel, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge critical guides.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The history of the book : Augustine's City of God and post-Roman cultural memory / Mark Vessey
  • Secularity and the saeculum / Paul J. Griffiths
  • Augustine's dystopia / Peter Iver Kaufman
  • From rape to resurrection : sin, sexual difference, and politics / Margaret R. Miles
  • Ideology and solidarity in Augustine's City of God / John Cavadini
  • The theater of the virtues : Augustine's critique of pagan mimesis / Jennifer Herdt
  • The psychology of compassion : Stoicism in City of God 9.5 / Sarah Byers
  • Augustine's rejection of eudaimonism / Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • Augustine on the origin of evil : myth and metaphysics / James Wetzel
  • Hell and the dilemmas of intractable alienation / John Bowlin
  • On the nature and worth of Christian philosophy : evidence from the City of God / John Rist
  • Reinventing Ausustine's ethics : the afterlife of City of God / Bonnie Kent.