On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity

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John Peter Kenney

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Reading Augustine

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Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine’s importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian thinker but as a philosophical, spiritual, literary and intellectual icon of the West. Why did the ancients come to adopt monotheism and Christianity? On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity introduces possible answers to that question by looking closely at the development of the thought of Augustine of Hippo, whose complex spiritual trajectory included Gnosticism, academic skepticism, pagan Platonism, and orthodox Christianity. What was so compelling about Christianity and how did Augustine become convinced that his soul could enter into communion with a transcendent God? The apparently sudden shift of ancient culture to monotheism and Christianity was momentous, defining the subsequent nature of Western religion and thought. John Peter Kenney shows us that Augustine offers an unusually clear vantage point to understand the essential ideas that drove that transition.

Author Biography:

John Peter Kenney is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Michael’s College, USA. He was previously Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College and then Dean of the College at Saint Michael’s. He is the author of Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology (1991), The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions (2005) and Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine (2013).

Release date NZ

December 27th, 2018

Author

John Peter Kenney

Series

Reading Augustine

Pages

144

Audience

Professional & Vocational

ISBN-13

9781501313981

Product ID

27184960

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