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The Essential Augustine

The Essential Augustine

Vernon J. Bourke
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Foreword
1 THE MAN & HIS WRITINGS: How A. Came to the Episcopacy ; A. Chooses Eraclius as His Successor ; A. on His Own Writings
2 FAITH & REASON: Belief is Volitional Consent ; To Believe Is to Think w/Assent ; Believing & Understanding ; Authority & Reason ; Two Ways to Knowledge ; Reason & Authority in Manicheism ; The Relation of Authority to Reason ; If I Am Deceived, I Am Alive ; I Know that I Am Alive ; Knowledge & Wisdom ; Error & Ignorance
3 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY: Creator, Human Soul, Body ; Natures on Three Levels ; Soul, Ruled by God, Rules Its Body ; Soul: Above the Sensible, Below God ; God, Mutable Spirits, & Bodies ; Divine, Psychic & Bodily Nature ; Causality: Divine, Psychic & Bodily ; Divine Ideas as Prototypes ; God Set Spiritual Creation Above the Corporeal ; Evil: the Privation of the Good
4 MAN’S SOUL: Existence, Life, Sense & Reason ; Sensation as an Activity of the Soul ; Memory, Understanding & Will ; The Wonders of Memory ; Three Levels of Vision
5 THE WORLD OF BODIES: All Bodily Natures Are Good ; Invisible Seeds in the Elements ; The Elements Contain Seminal Reasons ; Measure, Number, & Weight ; Concerning Formless Matter ; Place, Time & the Physical World ; The Wonders of Nature ; God Works Thruout Nature ; Man’s Natural Endowments ; The Physical World & the Xian
6 APPROACHING GOD THRU UNDERSTANDING: Creation is a Great Book ; The Journey of the Soul to God ; The Soul’s Ascent to God ; The Whole World Proclaims Its Maker ; Ascending to the Supreme Truth ; Plato’s View of God ; How to Think About God ; The Problem of Speaking About God ; God Is the Selfsame ; A Divine Invocation ; Late Have I Loved Thee
7 MORAL & RELIGIOUS LIFE: All Men Desire Happiness ; Man’s Greatest Good ; Good Love & Bad Love ; Moral Evil Stems from Bad Will ; Two Precepts of Love ; On Diversities of Local Customs ; Doing Good to Body & Soul ; The Evil of Telling a Lie ; Lying & Concealing the Truth ; Faith, Hope & Charity ; No Virtues Apart from God ; Our Reward Is Not in This Life
8 DIMENSIONS OF GRACE: What the Grace of God Is ; A. Was Never a Pelagian ; What True Grace Is ; The Work of Grace ; How Freedom Is Restored by Grace ; God’s Foreknowledge & Human Willing ; Grace Before & After the Fall ; Grace & Good Works ; Prevenient Grace ; Grace & Human Miseries ; The Beatific Vision
9 THE TWO CITIES: A.’s Analysis of the City of God ; How the Two Cities Differ ; Two Loves Make Two Cities ; Two Cities Formed by Two Loves ; The Unimportance of Externals ; Relation of the Heavenly & Earthly Cities ; Jerusalem & Babylon ; Summary of the Two Cities ; All Nations Are in the City of God ; The Church & the City of God ; The Foundation of the Holy City ; Religion & Human Destiny ; The Meaning of a People ; Peace: the Tranquility of Order ; Two Kingdoms After the Resurrection
10 PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Belief & Historical Events ; The Universality of Providence ; Meaning in History ; Six Ages in Biblical History ; Symbolic Meaning of Jewish History ; Christ in History ; The Two Cities in History ; What Is Time? ; Critique of Cyclicism
APENDIXES: 1 Selected, Annotated Bibliography 2 Alphabetical List of A.’s Writings 3 Glossary of Terms
INDEX
Language
English
Pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company (Indianapolis, IN)
Release
August 01, 1978
ISBN
0915144077
ISBN 13
9780915144075

The Essential Augustine

Vernon J. Bourke
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Foreword
1 THE MAN & HIS WRITINGS: How A. Came to the Episcopacy ; A. Chooses Eraclius as His Successor ; A. on His Own Writings
2 FAITH & REASON: Belief is Volitional Consent ; To Believe Is to Think w/Assent ; Believing & Understanding ; Authority & Reason ; Two Ways to Knowledge ; Reason & Authority in Manicheism ; The Relation of Authority to Reason ; If I Am Deceived, I Am Alive ; I Know that I Am Alive ; Knowledge & Wisdom ; Error & Ignorance
3 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY: Creator, Human Soul, Body ; Natures on Three Levels ; Soul, Ruled by God, Rules Its Body ; Soul: Above the Sensible, Below God ; God, Mutable Spirits, & Bodies ; Divine, Psychic & Bodily Nature ; Causality: Divine, Psychic & Bodily ; Divine Ideas as Prototypes ; God Set Spiritual Creation Above the Corporeal ; Evil: the Privation of the Good
4 MAN’S SOUL: Existence, Life, Sense & Reason ; Sensation as an Activity of the Soul ; Memory, Understanding & Will ; The Wonders of Memory ; Three Levels of Vision
5 THE WORLD OF BODIES: All Bodily Natures Are Good ; Invisible Seeds in the Elements ; The Elements Contain Seminal Reasons ; Measure, Number, & Weight ; Concerning Formless Matter ; Place, Time & the Physical World ; The Wonders of Nature ; God Works Thruout Nature ; Man’s Natural Endowments ; The Physical World & the Xian
6 APPROACHING GOD THRU UNDERSTANDING: Creation is a Great Book ; The Journey of the Soul to God ; The Soul’s Ascent to God ; The Whole World Proclaims Its Maker ; Ascending to the Supreme Truth ; Plato’s View of God ; How to Think About God ; The Problem of Speaking About God ; God Is the Selfsame ; A Divine Invocation ; Late Have I Loved Thee
7 MORAL & RELIGIOUS LIFE: All Men Desire Happiness ; Man’s Greatest Good ; Good Love & Bad Love ; Moral Evil Stems from Bad Will ; Two Precepts of Love ; On Diversities of Local Customs ; Doing Good to Body & Soul ; The Evil of Telling a Lie ; Lying & Concealing the Truth ; Faith, Hope & Charity ; No Virtues Apart from God ; Our Reward Is Not in This Life
8 DIMENSIONS OF GRACE: What the Grace of God Is ; A. Was Never a Pelagian ; What True Grace Is ; The Work of Grace ; How Freedom Is Restored by Grace ; God’s Foreknowledge & Human Willing ; Grace Before & After the Fall ; Grace & Good Works ; Prevenient Grace ; Grace & Human Miseries ; The Beatific Vision
9 THE TWO CITIES: A.’s Analysis of the City of God ; How the Two Cities Differ ; Two Loves Make Two Cities ; Two Cities Formed by Two Loves ; The Unimportance of Externals ; Relation of the Heavenly & Earthly Cities ; Jerusalem & Babylon ; Summary of the Two Cities ; All Nations Are in the City of God ; The Church & the City of God ; The Foundation of the Holy City ; Religion & Human Destiny ; The Meaning of a People ; Peace: the Tranquility of Order ; Two Kingdoms After the Resurrection
10 PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Belief & Historical Events ; The Universality of Providence ; Meaning in History ; Six Ages in Biblical History ; Symbolic Meaning of Jewish History ; Christ in History ; The Two Cities in History ; What Is Time? ; Critique of Cyclicism
APENDIXES: 1 Selected, Annotated Bibliography 2 Alphabetical List of A.’s Writings 3 Glossary of Terms
INDEX
Language
English
Pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company (Indianapolis, IN)
Release
August 01, 1978
ISBN
0915144077
ISBN 13
9780915144075

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