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- catalog abstract ""Recent scholarship has focused attention on the difficulties that evil, suffering, and tragic conflict present to religious belief and moral life. Thinkers have drawn upon many important historical figures, with one significant exception - Augustine. At the same time, there has been a renaissance of work on Augustine, but little discussion of either his work on evil or his influence on contemporary thought." "This book fills these gaps. It explores the "family biography" of the Augustinian tradition by looking at Augustine's work and its development in the writings of Hannah Arendt and Reinhold Niebuhr. Mathewes argues that the Augustinian tradition offers us a powerful, though commonly misconstrued, proposal for understanding and responding to evil's challenges. The book casts new light on Augustine, Niebuhr, and Arendt, as well as on the problem of evil, the nature of tradition, and the role of theological and ethical discourse in contemporary thought."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12255374.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Recent scholarship has focused attention on the difficulties that evil, suffering, and tragic conflict present to religious belief and moral life. Thinkers have drawn upon many important historical figures, with one significant exception - Augustine. At the same time, there has been a renaissance of work on Augustine, but little discussion of either his work on evil or his influence on contemporary thought."".
- catalog description ""This book fills these gaps. It explores the "family biography" of the Augustinian tradition by looking at Augustine's work and its development in the writings of Hannah Arendt and Reinhold Niebuhr. Mathewes argues that the Augustinian tradition offers us a powerful, though commonly misconstrued, proposal for understanding and responding to evil's challenges. The book casts new light on Augustine, Niebuhr, and Arendt, as well as on the problem of evil, the nature of tradition, and the role of theological and ethical discourse in contemporary thought."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : reaching disagreement -- PART I. Preliminaries : evil and the Augustinian tradition -- 1. Modernity and evil -- 2. The Augustinian tradition and its discontents -- PART II. Genealogy : remembering the Augustinian tradition -- 3. Sin as perversion : Reinhold Niebuhr's Augustinian psychology -- 4. Evil as privation : Hannah Arendt's Augustinian ontology -- PART III. The challenge of the Augustinian tradition to evil -- 5. Demythologizing evil -- Conclusion : realizing incomprehension, discerning mystery -- Works cited -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 271 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521807158 (hbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "214 21".
- catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.".
- catalog subject "BJ1406 .M28 2001".
- catalog subject "Good and evil.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : reaching disagreement -- PART I. Preliminaries : evil and the Augustinian tradition -- 1. Modernity and evil -- 2. The Augustinian tradition and its discontents -- PART II. Genealogy : remembering the Augustinian tradition -- 3. Sin as perversion : Reinhold Niebuhr's Augustinian psychology -- 4. Evil as privation : Hannah Arendt's Augustinian ontology -- PART III. The challenge of the Augustinian tradition to evil -- 5. Demythologizing evil -- Conclusion : realizing incomprehension, discerning mystery -- Works cited -- Index.".
- catalog title "Evil and the Augustinian tradition / Charles T. Mathewes.".
- catalog type "text".