Rowan Williams

On Augustine (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.

St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory (City of God) and through his Confessions to the understanding of human psychology.

Rowan Williams has an entirely fresh perspective on these matters and the chapter titles in this new book demonstrate this at a glance - 'Language Reality and Desire', 'Politics and the Soul', 'Paradoxes of Self Knowledge', 'Insubstantial Evil'.

As with his previous titles, Dostoevsky, The Edge of Words and Faith in the Public Square this new study is sure to be a major contribution on a compelling subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472925282
• Artikelnr.: 44867448

Autorenporträt

Rowan Williams is a former Archbishop of Canterbury and was until 2020 Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books, including Looking East in Winter, Holy Living, and The Edge of Words, published by Bloomsbury Continuum. He lives in Cardiff and continues to broadcast, preach and lecture internationally. In 2022, he gave the second of the BBC's centenary Reith Lectures.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionAbbreviations and Notes on Translations1 'A Question to Myself' Time and Self-Awareness in the Confessions2 The Soul in Paraphrase: Augustine as Interpreter of the Psalms3 Language, Reality and Desire: The Nature of Christian Foundation4 'Good for Nothing?' Augustine on Creation5 Insubstantial Evil6 Politics and the Soul7 Augustine on Christ and the Trinity: An Overview8 Wisdom in Person: Augustine's Christology9 The Paradoxes of Self-Knowledge10 Sapienta: Wisdom in Person: Augustine's Trinitarian Relations11 Augustinian LoveGod in Search: A SermonIndex

Rezensionen

This is a book that I have been waiting all my adult life to read - though I did not realise it ... Again and again, I put this book down and wished that it were compulsory reading for all those who, in our public forum, think that they are engaging in intelligible conversations when they are merely mouthing sounds. A N Wilson New Statesman