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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      18 August 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511520228
      9780521589529
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.485kg, 356 Pages
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    This major work constitutes a significant attempt to provide a detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine's thought as a whole. It describes the transformation of Greco-Roman philosophy into the version that was to become the most influential in the history of Western thought. Augustine weighed some of the major themes of classical philosophy and ancient culture against the truth he found in the Bible and Catholic tradition, and reformulated these in Christian dress.

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    ‘… masterful study … Rist places [Augustine] firmly in the tradition of classical philosophy and uncovers the intellectual unease which made him a deep and original thinker.’

    John Marenbon Source: The Times

    ‘… is likely to be reckoned by readers to rank as Rist’s best book so far: the sheer magnitude of the subject and the contemporaneity of some the issues have evoked a book to match’.

    Henry Chadwick Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘Rist’s study of Augustine is a stunning achievement … [His] exposition is simple, lucid, based on vast learning and has the sympathetic understanding required for true insight. What distinguishes his study from many others is his acute awaremeess of the problems, obscurities, unresolved tensions and incoherences in Augustine’s thought’.

    R. A. Markus Source: Theology

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