REASON, AUTHORITY, AND THE HEALING OF DESIRE IN THE WRITINGS OF AUGUSTINE
In Reason, Authority, and the Healing of Desire in the Writings of Augustine, Mark Boone explains Augustine's theology of desire in a cross-section of his writings. He shows that Augustine's writings consistently teach a Platonically informed, yet distinctively Christian, theology of desir...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Reason, Authority, and the Healing of Desire in the Writings of Augustine
- Reason, Authority, and the Healing of Desire in the Writings of Augustine
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Desire
- The Twin Methods of Reason and Authority
- Augustine and His Modern Readers
- Reason, Authority, and Desire
- Notes
- Part one: Reason
- Chapter 1
- Defense of the Faith according to Reason
- Manicheanism
- The Prologue: True Religion, the Happy Life, and the Pursuit of Wisdom
- The Problem of Evil: Creation, Sin, and Redemption
- When Someone Lacking Wisdom Meets an Authority Having It
- The Ascent
- Notes
- Chapter 2
- Ethics according to Reason
- The Testimony of Reason
- The Testimony of Authority: Paragraphs 24-40
- Dialogue with the Manicheans: Paragraphs 41-48
- Notes
- Chapter 3
- Metaphysics and the Problem of Evil according to Reason
- BOOK I: Free Will Is the Cause of Evil
- BOOK II: Free Will Is a Good
- Book III: Whence the Free Will's Turning Away from God?
- Notes
- Chapter 4
- God and the Soul according to Reason
- Soliloquia and De Magistro
- De Magistro's Epistemology
- De Magistro's Theology of Desire
- Notes
- Part Two: Authority
- Chapter 5
- Defense of the Faith according to Authority
- Defense of the Old Testament
- Why Belief Makes Sense
- Notes
- Chapter 6
- Ethics according to Authority
- Marriage and Friendship: 1.1
- What Is Marriage?
- The Goods of Marriage
- Marriage and Augustine's Theology of Desire
- Notes
- Chapter 7
- Metaphysics and the Problem of Evil according to Authority
- Faith: Reality and Evil
- Faith: Redemption
- Hope and Love
- Notes
- Chapter 8
- God and the Soul according to Authority
- Apologetics, Ethics, Metaphysics, and Desire
- God and the Soul in Confessions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author