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Gratia in Augustine's Sermones ad Populum during the Pelagian Controversy. Do Different Contexts Furnish Different Insights?

Door Anthony Dupont

Categorie
Religie & Theologie
Boeknummer
#229155
Titel
Gratia in Augustine's Sermones ad Populum during the Pelagian Controversy. Do Different Contexts Furnish Different Insights?
Auteur
Dupont, Anthony
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Leiden/Boston, Brill
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
9004231579
ISBN13
9789004231573
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Brill's Series in Church History - Volume 59; Series Editor Wim Janse.
Samenvatting

During the last decades, the doctrine of grace of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) has been studied in depth. The occurrence of grace in Augustine's ca. 580 sermones ad populum has not yet been systematically analysed. This monograph studies the presence of grace in sermones preached during the period of the Pelagian controversy - a debate precisely on the relation between divine grace and human freedom. Does Augustine deal with grace differently in these sermones and his anti-pelagian tractates? First, the gratia content of the sermones does not differ from that of the systematic treatises. Second, the treatment of this topic differs on occasion, a difference determined by the biblical, liturgical, rhetorical and contextual framework of the sermones. This book explores the anthropological-e
... (Lees verder)thical perspective of grace in Augustine, which results in a correction of the image of an Augustine overemphasising God and neglecting man, and in a plea to see continuity in his thinking on grace.
Pagina's
583
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 187,50

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