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Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography Hollingworth, Miles
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St. Augustine was undoubtedly one of the great thinkers of the early church. Yet it has long been assumed--and not without reason--that the main lines of Augustine's thought have been more or less fixed since his death. That insofar as we should be aware of him in the twenty-first century, he is a figure described--if not circumscribed--by his times. A major revisionist treatment of Augustine's life and thought, Miles Hollingworth's Saint Augustine of Hippo overturns this assumption.
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Saint Augustine of Hippo : an Intellectual Biography
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English
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Religious, General
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2013
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Biography & Autobiography, Religion
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400 Pages
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"[An] ambitious and comprehensive work."--Church of Ireland Gazette "Hollingworth shows why it is that Augustine has such broad appeal; not just because he finds him surprisingly humane and enlightened about our propensity to sin but because of the positive spin that he puts on the absence of God experience and the hope of meaning that his interpretation of the restless heart gives to those who suffer existential angst and radical doubt. This is therefore a book for all seekers after the Truth: theist and atheist as well as all lovers of Augustine."--Margaret Lane, Theology "Hollingworth brings out the underlying vision and the lived meaning of Augustine's thought ... This book shares Augustine's concern to relate his life to the reader's own, and to require of readers an engagement with their own cultural and personal history. It is at times demanding, even frustrating. Readers will probably vary widely in their judgement of its success or failure, but success or failure must also attend upon the reader's work, as she or he squares up to Augustine's vision." --Journal of Theological Studies "Learned and well documented."--Claremont Review of Books "Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury "Hollingworth patiently explains Augustine to the contemporary reader, imagined as someone in whom a naïve historicism holds sway and in whom Augustine's claims, such as the damnation of unbaptized infants and the value of virginity, are easily ridiculed. He does so by an appeal to the human struggles of a great man. This type of presentation justifies the subtitle, 'An Intellectual Biography'; it is a study that embeds a person's ideas within their historical context. One can query this approach and raise issues concerning the historiography, but it brings readers closer to Augustine in all his complexity." --Heythrop Journal, "[An] ambitious and comprehensive work."--Church of Ireland Gazette"Hollingworth shows why it is that Augustine has such broad appeal; not just because he finds him surprisingly humane and enlightened about our propensity to sin but because of the positive spin that he puts on the absence of God experience and the hope of meaning that his interpretation of the restless heart gives to those who suffer existential angst and radical doubt. This is therefore a book for all seekers after the Truth: theist and atheist as well as all lovers of Augustine."--Margaret Lane, Theology"Hollingworth brings out the underlying vision and the lived meaning of Augustine's thought ... This book shares Augustine's concern to relate his life to the reader's own, and to require of readers an engagement with their own cultural and personal history. It is at times demanding, even frustrating. Readers will probably vary widely in their judgement of its success or failure, but success or failure must also attend upon the reader's work, as she or he squares up to Augustine's vision." --Journal of Theological Studies"Learned and well documented."--Claremont Review of Books"Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury"Hollingworth patiently explains Augustine to the contemporary reader, imagined as someone in whom a naïve historicism holds sway and in whom Augustine's claims, such as the damnation of unbaptized infants and the value of virginity, are easily ridiculed. He does so by an appeal to the human struggles of a great man. This type of presentation justifies the subtitle, 'An Intellectual Biography'; it is a study that embeds a person's ideas within their historical context. One can query this approach and raise issues concerning the historiography, but it brings readers closer to Augustine in all his complexity." --Heythrop Journal, "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, "Hollingworth brings out the underlying vision and the lived meaning of Augustine's thought ... This book shares Augustine's concern to relate his life to the reader's own, and to require of readers an engagement with their own cultural and personal history. It is at times demanding, even frustrating. Readers will probably vary widely in their judgement of its success or failure, but success or failure must also attend upon the reader's work, as she or he squares up to Augustine's vision." --Journal of Theological Studies "Learned and well documented."--Claremont Review of Books "Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, "[An] ambitious and comprehensive work."--Church of Ireland Gazette "Hollingworth shows why it is that Augustine has such broad appeal; not just because he finds him surprisingly humane and enlightened about our propensity to sin but because of the positive spin that he puts on the absence of God experience and the hope of meaning that his interpretation of the restless heart gives to those who suffer existential angst and radical doubt. This is therefore a book for all seekers after the Truth: theist and atheist as well as all lovers of Augustine."--Margaret Lane, Theology "Hollingworth brings out the underlying vision and the lived meaning of Augustine's thought ... This book shares Augustine's concern to relate his life to the reader's own, and to require of readers an engagement with their own cultural and personal history. It is at times demanding, even frustrating. Readers will probably vary widely in their judgement of its success or failure, but success or failure must also attend upon the reader's work, as she or he squares up to Augustine's vision." --Journal of Theological Studies "Learned and well documented."--Claremont Review of Books "Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, "Learned and well documented."--Claremont Review of Books "Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, "[An] ambitious and comprehensive work."--Church of Ireland Gazette "Hollingworth shows why it is that Augustine has such broad appeal; not just because he finds him surprisingly humane and enlightened about our propensity to sin but because of the positive spin that he puts on the absence of God experience and the hope of meaning that his interpretation of the restless heart gives to those who suffer existential angst and radical doubt. This is therefore a book for all seekers after the Truth: theist and atheist as well as all lovers of Augustine."--Margaret Lane, Theology "Hollingworth brings out the underlying vision and the lived meaning of Augustine's thought ... This book shares Augustine's concern to relate his life to the reader's own, and to require of readers an engagement with their own cultural and personal history. It is at times demanding, even frustrating. Readers will probably vary widely in their judgement of its success or failure, but success or failure must also attend upon the reader's work, as she or he squares up to Augustine's vision." --Journal of Theological Studies "Learned and well documented."--Claremont Review of Books "Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury "Hollingworth patiently explains Augustine to the contemporary reader, imagined as someone in whom a nave historicism holds sway and in whom Augustine's claims, such as the damnation of unbaptized infants and the value of virginity, are easily ridiculed. He does so by an appeal to the human struggles of a great man. This type of presentation justifies the subtitle, 'An Intellectual Biography'; it is a study that embeds a person's ideas within their historical context. One can query this approach and raise issues concerning the historiography, but it brings readers closer to Augustine in all his complexity." --Heythrop Journal, "Hollingworth brings out the underlying vision and the lived meaning of Augustine's thought ... This book shares Augustine's concern to relate his life to the reader's own, and to require of readers an engagement with their own cultural and personal history. It is at times demanding, even frustrating. Readers will probably vary widely in their judgement of its success or failure, but success or failure must also attend upon the reader's work, as she or he squares up to Augustine's vision." -- Journal of Theological Studies "Learned and well documented."--Claremont Review of Books "Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, "Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, "Hollingworth shows why it is that Augustine has such broad appeal; not just because he finds him surprisingly humane and enlightened about our propensity to sin but because of the positive spin that he puts on the absence of God experience and the hope of meaning that his interpretation of the restless heart gives to those who suffer existential angst and radical doubt. This is therefore a book for all seekers after the Truth: theist and atheist as well as all lovers of Augustine."--Margaret Lane, Theology "Hollingworth brings out the underlying vision and the lived meaning of Augustine's thought ... This book shares Augustine's concern to relate his life to the reader's own, and to require of readers an engagement with their own cultural and personal history. It is at times demanding, even frustrating. Readers will probably vary widely in their judgement of its success or failure, but success or failure must also attend upon the reader's work, as she or he squares up to Augustine's vision." --Journal of Theological Studies "Learned and well documented."--Claremont Review of Books "Relying primarily on Augustine's Confessions in order to unearth how the experiences of the young Augustine shaped the theology of the older clergyman, Hollingworth interweaves Augustine's theological insights with his personal plights in a lively and lyrical manner. In eleven chapters, Hollingworth covers diverse themes in Augustine's life under headings such as "Augustine's remarks on his parents" (chapter 3),"Manichaeism" (chapter 7), and "On the singular deportment of death, love, and grief" (chapter 8). Hollingworth's biography exercises the reader's historical, philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic imagination..." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, "This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself--humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago." --Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
Table of Content
PrefaceIntroduction: Saint Augustine's Intellectual Milieu1. Augustine's Father and Mother2. Reflections on Infancy3. Boyhood4. Traumas of Initiation into the Early Church5. Reflections on the Human Propensity to Sin6. Shallow Days at Carthage7. Cicero and a Sense of Purpose8. Salvation Conceived along Old Lines9. Presumption and Contrition10. The Neo Platonists and St. Paul11. Conversion12. Death and Resurrection13. First Works from the New Perspective14. The Logic of Scripture in the Life of One Man15. From the Mouth of God's Truth16. The Purpose of Human Endeavour17. Epilogue: Augustinianism
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2013
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2013-012878
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270.2092
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23
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