Parting Knowledge: Essays after Augustine. By James Wetzel
In this important and timely collection of essays, you will get to witness a major and original moral philosopher writing his heart out in what he would like us to see is the Augustinian theological tradition. These are, word for word, then, ‘essays after Augustine’. As Wetzel puts it: ‘I owe to Aug...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 754-757 |
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| Summary: | In this important and timely collection of essays, you will get to witness a major and original moral philosopher writing his heart out in what he would like us to see is the Augustinian theological tradition. These are, word for word, then, ‘essays after Augustine’. As Wetzel puts it: ‘I owe to Augustine my sense that Platonism's greatest puzzle—the secret unity of two disparate realities, high and low—is better dissolved than solved’ (p. 3). But it would be a mistake to be lulled into imagining that these essays are going to offer a gentle retrospective. They have been carefully arranged to force you to face a thesis. They have all appeared previously, across the range of Wetzel's career—except that is, for the new essay on original sin and sex, around which this book pivots. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu077 |