The Augustinian tradition
Augustine, probably the single thinker who did the most to Christianize the classical learning of ancient Greece and Rome, exerted a remarkable influence on medieval and modern thought, and he speaks forcefully and directly to twentieth-century readers as well. The most widely read of his writings today are, no doubt, his Confessions -- the first significant autobiography in world literature -- and The City of God. The preoccupations of those two works, like those of Augustine's less well-known writings, include self-examination, human motivation, dreams, skepticism, language, time, war, and history -- topics that still fascinate and perplex us 1,600 years later
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1999
xix, 398 pages ; 23 cm.
9780520209992, 9780520210011, 0520209990, 0520210018
37426456
CONTRIBUTORS: Marilyn McCord Adams, Rudiger Bittner, M. F. Burnyeat , Frederick J. Crosson, Richard Eldridge, Ishtiyaque Haji, John Hare, Simon Harrison, Ann Hartle, Robert L. Holmes, Christopher Kirwan, Simo Knuuttila, Genevieve Lloyd, Scott MacDonald, William E. Mann, Gareth B. Matthews, Martha Nussbaum, Alvin Plantinga, Philip L. Quinn, Paul J. Weithman