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Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception
Gerald O´collins
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Description for Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception
Hardback. A study of Augustine's account of the resurrection of Christ followed by an examination of the reception of those ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; HPCA; HRAX; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he taught about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine expounded Christ's resurrection in his sermons, letters, Answer to Faustus the Manichean, the City of God, Expositions of the Psalms, and the Trinity. Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception explores what Augustine held about the centrality of Christ's resurrection from the dead, the agency of Christ's resurrection, and the nature of his risen existence. Leading scholar, Gerald O'Collins, investigates the impact of his resurrection on others ... Read more
Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he taught about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine expounded Christ's resurrection in his sermons, letters, Answer to Faustus the Manichean, the City of God, Expositions of the Psalms, and the Trinity. Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception explores what Augustine held about the centrality of Christ's resurrection from the dead, the agency of Christ's resurrection, and the nature of his risen existence. Leading scholar, Gerald O'Collins, investigates the impact of his resurrection on others ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
142
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198799542
SKU
V9780198799542
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About Gerald O´collins
After studies at the University of Melbourne and at the University of Cambridge, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, taught at the Gregorian University from 1973 to 2006 and was also Dean of the Theology Faculty 1985-91. He has authored or co-authored sixty-seven books including Revelation: Toward a Christian Theology of God's Self-Revelation (2016) and Catholicism: The Story of Catholic Christianity, Second Edition ... Read more
Reviews for Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception
Once again Gerald O'Collins brings together his deep knowledge of Christian tradition into dialogue with the life of the contemporary Christian community. This book is first and foremost an exposition of Augustine's teaching on the resurrection of Christan oddly understudied topic. And yet O'Collins aims his ground-breaking exposition toward a modern apologetic endAugustines thoughts are drawn out as a vital ... Read more