RT Book
T1 Augustine's City of God: a critical guide
T2 Cambridge critical guides
A2 Wetzel, James 1959-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/88335196X
AB Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of those themes, using the central, contested distinction between a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage and an earthly city bound for perdition to elaborate aspects of Augustine's political and moral vision. Topics discussed include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, his departure from classical eudaimonism, his mythology of sin, his dystopian politics, his surprising attention to female bodies, his moral psychology, his valorisation of love, his critique of empire and his conception of a Christian philosophy. Together the essays advance our understanding of Augustine's most influential work and provide a rich overview of Augustinian political theology and its philosophical implications.
OP 261
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BR65.A65
SN 978-1-139-01414-4
K1 Augustine
K1 Augustine : Saint, Bishop of Hippo : De civitate Dei
K1 Kingdom of God
K1 Apologetics
K1 Augustine ; Saint, Bishop of Hippo ; De civitate Dei
K1 Kommentar
DO 10.1017/CBO9781139014144