J. Warren Smith (North Carolina Duke University)

Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness

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Produktbeschreibung

Two important theologians of early Christianity were Ambrose of Milan and Augustine of Hippo. Both were intellectually formed by philosophers, such as Cicero, who taught that virtue was the way to greatness. Yet they saw contradictions between Roman and Christian ethical ideals. Could these competing visions of greatness be reconciled?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781108490740
• ISBN-10: 1108490743
• Artikelnr.: 60003978

Autorenporträt

J. Warren Smith is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa (2004) and Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue: The Theological Foundation of Ambrose's Ethics (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Problem of Greatness and the Great-Souled Man from Plato to Plutarch: 1. greatness of soul: the perfection of classical virtue
2. The roman ideal of great-souled men
Part II. Ambrose's Great-Souled Christians: 3. Law, gospel, and exemplary patriarchs
4. Toward a higher greatness: re-narrating perfection
5. Beyond honor and shame
Part III. Augustine and the Magnus Animus: 6. The 'sublime indifference' of greatness?
7. The witness of death and the witness of conscience: Lucretia and the shaming of roman virtue
Epilogue: the end of virtue
Abbreviations
Bibliography.