A Companion to Augustine

Mark Vessey

2012년 5월 · John Wiley & Sons

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A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right.

Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context
Presents Augustine’s life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place
Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture
State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field

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Mark Vessey is Professor of English and Principal of Green College at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts (2005), and has edited Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2005) and The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present (2011).