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Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St Augustine

Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St Augustine

Paperback

Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0521368553
ISBN13: 9780521368551
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 9 1989
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In this book Professor Markus's main concern is with those aspects of Augustine's thought which help to answer questions about the purpose of human society, and particularly with his reflections on history, society and the Church. He relates Augustine's ideas to their contemporary context and to older traditions, and shows which aspects of his thought he absorbed from his intellectual environment. Augustine appears from this study as a thinker who rejected the 'sacralization' of the established order of society, and the implications of this for a theology of history are explored in the last chapter.

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