Rethinking Augustine's Early Theology
An Argument for Continuity
Rethinking Augustine's Early Theology
An Argument for Continuity
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199543649
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 13/03/2008
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Carol Harrison counters the assumption that Augustine of Hippo's (354-430) theology underwent a revolutionary transformation around the time he was consecrated Bishop in 396. Instead, she argues that there is a fundamental continuity in his thought and practice from the moment of his conversion in 386. The book thereby challenges the general scholarly trend to begin reading Augustine with his Confessions (396), which were begun ten years after his conversion, and refocuses attention on his earlier works, which undergird his whole theological system.
I would cordially recommend reading this study...Seldom I have read such a fierce defence of Augustine in recent literature. Harrison offers the reader a brilliant anthology of the early Augustine and is as such a valuable thematic introduction in the writing and thinking og Augustine before 396. But the monograph is much more, it is a meritorious overview of the several key elements in the continuity and a lesson in understanding how the central features of
Augustine's conversion remain fruiytfully present in his thinking. * Anthony Dupont Ars Disputandi *
