Rereading historical theology : before, during, and after Augustine / Margaret R Miles

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Eugene, Or. Cascade Book c2008Description: xviii, 307 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781556352164
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 281.32 Au45z M595r
Contents:
Contents: Part I: Augustine and the classical tradition. 1- Facie ad faciem : visuality, desire, and the discourse of the other -- 2- Who are we really? : a Platonist's contribution to Christianity -- 3- Happiness in motion : desire and delight -- Part II: Augustine. 4- Patriarchy as political theology : the establishment of North African Christianity -- 5- Roman North African Christian spiritualities -- 6- The body and human values in Augustine of Hippo -- 7- Infancy, parenting, and nourishment in Augustine's Confessions -- 8- Not nameless but unnamed : the woman torn from Augustine's side -- 9- "Jesus patibilis" : Augustine's debate with the Manichaeans -- 10- Sex and the city (of God) : is sex forfeited or fulfilled in Augustine's resurrection of the body? -- 11- Santa Maria Maggiore's fifth-century mosaics : triumphal Christianity and the Jews -- 12- Vision : the eye of the body and the eye of the mind in Augustine's De trinitate and Confessions -- Part III: Augustine's successors. 13- A sea of love : Marguerite Porete's A mirror for simple souls -- 14- The mystical method of Meister Eckhart -- 15- "The rope breaks when it is tightest" : Luther on the body, consciousness, and the word -- 16- Theology, anthropology, and the human body in Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion
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All but one of the essays were previously published in various sources

Bibliography (p.295-304), index

Contents:
Part I: Augustine and the classical tradition.
1- Facie ad faciem : visuality, desire, and the discourse of the other --
2- Who are we really? : a Platonist's contribution to Christianity --
3- Happiness in motion : desire and delight --
Part II: Augustine.
4- Patriarchy as political theology : the establishment of North African Christianity --
5- Roman North African Christian spiritualities --
6- The body and human values in Augustine of Hippo --
7- Infancy, parenting, and nourishment in Augustine's Confessions --
8- Not nameless but unnamed : the woman torn from Augustine's side --
9- "Jesus patibilis" : Augustine's debate with the Manichaeans --
10- Sex and the city (of God) : is sex forfeited or fulfilled in Augustine's resurrection of the body? --
11- Santa Maria Maggiore's fifth-century mosaics : triumphal Christianity and the Jews --
12- Vision : the eye of the body and the eye of the mind in Augustine's De trinitate and Confessions --
Part III: Augustine's successors.
13- A sea of love : Marguerite Porete's A mirror for simple souls --
14- The mystical method of Meister Eckhart --
15- "The rope breaks when it is tightest" : Luther on the body, consciousness, and the word --
16- Theology, anthropology, and the human body in Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion

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