Evil and the Augustinian tradition /

Evil and the Augustinian tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mathewes, Charles T., 1969-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Augustine, -- of Hippo, Saint, -- 354-430. Augustine, -- of Hippo, Saint, -- 354-430 Good and evil. Good and evil. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130118

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ISBN:	051104187X 9780511041877 9780511487781 0511487789 0511044372 9780511044373 9780521807159 0521807158 1107124433 9781107124431 1280419245 9781280419249 0511174292 9780511174292 0511154054 9780511154058 0511325185 9780511325182
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Evil and the Augustinian Tradition casts new light on Augustine, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah Arendt, as well as on the problem of evil, the nature of tradition, and the role of theological and ethical discourse in contemporary thought.
Other form:	Print version: Mathewes, Charles T., 1969- Evil and the Augustinian tradition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521807158

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: reaching disagreement
Part I. Preliminaries: Evil and the Augustinian Tradition
1. Modernity and evil
2. The Augustinian tradition and its discontents
Part II. Genealogy: Remembering the Augustinian Tradition
3. Sin as perversion: Reinhold Niebuhr's Augustinian psychology
4. Evil as privation: Hannah Arendt's Augustinian ontology
Part III. The Challenge of the Augustinian Tradition to Evil
5. Demythologising evil
Conclusion: realising incomprehension, discerning mystery
Works cited
Index