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A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right. Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context Presents Augustine’s life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–7): Mark Vessey Chapter 2 Political History (pages 9–23): Christopher Kelly Chapter 3 Cultural Geography (pages 24–39): William E. Klingshirn Chapter 4 Religious Sociology (pages 40–53): Eric Rebillard Chapter 5 Spes Saeculi (pages 55–68): R. S. O. Tomlin Chapter 6 Love and Belonging, Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions (pages 6

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Author

Vessey, Mark (editor)

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley-Blackwell

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781405159463

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Christian