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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

A Companion to Augustine

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 20/04/2012
    ISBN13: 9781405159463, 978-1405159463
    ISBN10: 1405159464

    Number of Pages: 640

    Non Fiction , Religion

    Description

    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

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