Beauty and revelation in the thought of Saint Augustine
Placing St Augustine's theology in a new context by considering what he has to say about beauty, this shows how a theological understanding of beauty revealed in the created, temporal realm enabled Augustine to form a positive appreciation of this realm and the healing power of beauty within it...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
Clarendon
1992
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| In: | Year: 1992 |
| Reviews: | REVIEWS (1993) (Markus, R. A.)
Beauty and Revelation in the Thought of Saint Augustine. Carol Harrison Augustine and the Limits of Virtue. James Wetzel Desire and Delight: A New Reading of Augustine's Confessions. Margaret R. Miles (1995) (Kenney, J. P.) |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford theological monographs
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430
/ Beauty
/ Revelation
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| Further subjects: | B
Aesthetics, Ancient
B Religion B Revelation Christianity History of doctrines, Early church, ca 30-600 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Placing St Augustine's theology in a new context by considering what he has to say about beauty, this shows how a theological understanding of beauty revealed in the created, temporal realm enabled Augustine to form a positive appreciation of this realm and the healing power of beauty within it. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 289 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0191682543 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263425.001.0001 |