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Subject(s)

• Augustine of Hippo, Saint 354-430 [Browse]
• Soul [Browse]
• Theological anthropology—Christianity [Browse]

Series

• American Academy of Religion academy series. [More in this series]
• AAR academy series

Summary note

In our current pluralist and often secular context, there is no clearly designated means of valuing or defining the human person. Matthew Drever shows that in the writings of St Augustine we find a concept of the human person as fluid tenuous, prone to great good and great vice, and influenced deeply by language, history, and society. Through examination of his account of the human relation to God, Drever demonstrates how Augustine may be regarded as a crucial resource for areligious reorientation and revaluation of the person.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013).

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Sounding the Silence of the Deep: The Origin of the Person; 3. Have We Nothing to Say?: The Augustinian Person de Nihilo; 4. Sightings: Vision in Trinitarian Context; 5. Know Thyself!: The Mind, Self-Knowledge, and the Image of God; 6. In the Presence of God's Own and the Absence of One's Own; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

ISBN

0-19-991634-9

OCLC

843881826

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