Beautiful bodies: Augustine, nunc et tunc
"St. Augustine was known as a theologian of feeling for many centuries. Renaissance painters pictured him holding his passionately blazing heart in his hand. In Augustine's society and education, feeling was considered an intimate and integral aspect of thinking, so intimately interwoven t...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Eugene, OR
Cascade Books
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Further subjects: | B
Corps humain - Aspect religieux - Christianisme
B Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430) B Human Body Religious aspects Christianity |
| Summary: | "St. Augustine was known as a theologian of feeling for many centuries. Renaissance painters pictured him holding his passionately blazing heart in his hand. In Augustine's society and education, feeling was considered an intimate and integral aspect of thinking, so intimately interwoven that philosophers struggled to distinguish these activities. Thus, Augustine was also committed to learning throughout his passionate and thoughtful life, from his early conviction that "God and the soul" can be known through the meticulous use of reason, to mature sermons in which he quoted "God is love," and commented, in effect, that is all you need to know about God. The role of feeling in his understanding of the effect of Christian doctrines on present life has been less noticed. This book proposes that changes in his perception of the value and significance of human bodies--from objects of rapacious lust to rapturous admiration of their beauty--form the nexus within which Augustine's thought and feeling cohere. The old Augustine's understanding of the theological significance of present bodies informed his acknowledged speculations on the qualities and capacities of beautiful bodies, nunc et tunc." -- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index Rezension: J. J. O'Donnell, Augustiniana 75 (2025) 412-414 |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 124 pages, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-6667-6731-X 978-1-6667-6731-5 978-1-6667-6730-8 1-6667-6730-1 |
