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Augustine and the Cure of Souls : Revising a Classical Ideal /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kolbet, Paul R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
Colección:Christianity and Judaism in antiquity ; v. 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.