Description
Book SynopsisCarol Harrison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, UK. She is the author of
The Art of Listening in the Early Church (2013),
Rethinking the Development of Augustine's Early Theology: An Argument for Continuity (2006),
Augustine: Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity (2000), and
Revelation and Beauty in the Thought of Saint Augustine (1992). She is the Editor of the Routledge
Early Church Fathers book series and is past President of the International Association of Patristic Studies.
Trade ReviewThe book gives a helpful map of theistic and nontheistic spiritualities, but due, in part, to its broad and comprehensive nature, specialists in the different areas covered will find issues to challenge and argue about. * Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society *
This is a critically important book … [It] becomes very clear that the significance of Carol Harrison’s study extends far beyond the fourth century, and concerns every major locus of Christian theology. * Modern Theology *
Harrison’s book will be an asset for any academic library that serves students of music history, philosophy, and theology. It is a valuable assemblage of primary materials, a rich source of often unusual secondary sources, and an interesting presentation of a point of view that merits further consideration. * Catholic Library World *
Harrison’s study captures the dialectical texture of Augustine’s thinking about music, as she strings along puzzles, resolutions and new puzzles with fugal complexity … by helping us read Augustine’s thinking on music, with all its twists and turns, Harrison invites us into a rich conversation that gets at questions basic to human experience. * Theology *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: The Conversion of the Senses Chapter Two: The Conversion of the Affections Chapter Three: The Conversion of the Voice Bibliography
