Origin Of The Soul In St Augustines Late
Robert J. O'Connell
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hardcover. Num Pages: 363 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 713.
This book rounds off Robert O’Connell’s study of St. Augustine’s view of the human condition, begun is St. Augustine’s Early Theory of Man, A.D. 386-391, and continued in St. Augustine’s Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul. The central thesis of the first book, and guiding hypothesis of the second, proposed that Augustine thought of us, in “Plotinian” terms, as “fallen souls,” and that in all sincerity he interpreted the teachings of Scripture as reflecting that same view. Professor O’Connell sees the weightiest objection to his proposition as stemming from what scholars generally agree to be Augustine’s firm rejection of that view ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
363
Condition
New
Number of Pages
363
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823211722
SKU
V9780823211722
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About Robert J. O'Connell
Robert J. O’Connell, S. J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His has five publications on St. Augustine, as well as several studies of Plato, William James, and Teilhard de Chardin. In 2015 he established the O’Connell established the O’Connell Initiative at Fordham, a forum for intellectual exploration, that brought together scholars of every aspect of capitalism.
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"This well-written and thoroughly documented study will be invaluable to faculty and graduate students; also appropriate for upper-divison undergraduates." -Choice