"How does Christ's mediation affect the individual human being? And how does that effect on the individual human being's soul relate to the way of salvation that incorporates, in principle, all human beings? Harmon answers both questions by examining Augustine's narration of his own life, and his treatment of the universal way of salvation as it flows among men in society and as it flows through the individual both involve the reconciliation of elements divided by the effects of sin. The healing of divisions among human beings and within human beings, in the thought of Augustine, is effected…mehr
"How does Christ's mediation affect the individual human being? And how does that effect on the individual human being's soul relate to the way of salvation that incorporates, in principle, all human beings? Harmon answers both questions by examining Augustine's narration of his own life, and his treatment of the universal way of salvation as it flows among men in society and as it flows through the individual both involve the reconciliation of elements divided by the effects of sin. The healing of divisions among human beings and within human beings, in the thought of Augustine, is effected by the same agency: the redemptive action of the Incarnate Word"--
Thomas P. Harmon is Professor & Scanlan Foundation Chair in Theology, Directory of the MA in Evangelization & Culture and Associate Director of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part One: Setting up the Argument about the Universal Way of Salvation Chapter One: Politics, Perception, and Religion from Republic to Empire Chapter Two: Religious Universalism in the late Roman Empire and the Arguments of Porphyry of Tyre Chapter Three: The Few, the Many, and the Universal Way of Salvation in Augustine's Early Works Part Two: Christ's Mediation of the Universal Way of Salvation Chapter Four: Human Wholeness and the Universal Way of Salvation in the City of God Chapter Five: Plato on the Divisions Among Human Beings Chapter Six: Augustine's Engagement with Platonic Political Philosophy on Ignorance and Difficulty Chapter Seven: Augustine's Argument with Porphyry on the Universal Way of Salvation Chapter Eight: Christ the Mediator of the Universal Way of Salvation Chapter Nine: Charity, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Transpolitical City of God Part Three: The Universal Way of Salvation and Augustine Himself Chapter Ten: Human Wholeness in the Confessions Chapter Eleven: Augustine's Philosophic Ascent Chapter Twelve: Salvation for the Philosopher and the Non-Philosopher: The Cases of Victorinus and Antony Chapter Thirteen: Augustine's Moral and Religious Conversion: Soul and Body, Few and Many Conclusion Bibliography Index
Introduction Part One: Setting up the Argument about the Universal Way of Salvation Chapter One: Politics, Perception, and Religion from Republic to Empire Chapter Two: Religious Universalism in the late Roman Empire and the Arguments of Porphyry of Tyre Chapter Three: The Few, the Many, and the Universal Way of Salvation in Augustine's Early Works Part Two: Christ's Mediation of the Universal Way of Salvation Chapter Four: Human Wholeness and the Universal Way of Salvation in the City of God Chapter Five: Plato on the Divisions Among Human Beings Chapter Six: Augustine's Engagement with Platonic Political Philosophy on Ignorance and Difficulty Chapter Seven: Augustine's Argument with Porphyry on the Universal Way of Salvation Chapter Eight: Christ the Mediator of the Universal Way of Salvation Chapter Nine: Charity, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Transpolitical City of God Part Three: The Universal Way of Salvation and Augustine Himself Chapter Ten: Human Wholeness in the Confessions Chapter Eleven: Augustine's Philosophic Ascent Chapter Twelve: Salvation for the Philosopher and the Non-Philosopher: The Cases of Victorinus and Antony Chapter Thirteen: Augustine's Moral and Religious Conversion: Soul and Body, Few and Many Conclusion Bibliography Index
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