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Zusatztext This book offers a fresh approach to Augustine’s timeless thoughts on the perennial human quest for self-location. Rather than seeing Augustine as a normative theologian, this reading presents an Augustine who in his unconditional search for truth discovers love as the vector generating meaning and direction to his, and by extension our, life. All who enjoy engaging with the big questions of today regarding human existence will find the reflections offered in this book a rewarding and perhaps surprising read. Informationen zum Autor Ian Clausen is Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow at Villanova University, USA. He previously held a two-year post at Valparaiso University as a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow. His research centers on Augustine and the Augustinian moral tradition, and extends to 21st-century debates on technology, moral theory and formation, and the good life. His publications appear in journals such as Augustinian Studies , Religions , Expository Times , Radical Orthodoxy , and Studies in Christian Ethics . He is a former British Marshall Scholar. Vorwort Tells the story of how Augustine came to write Confessions and how he arrived at a moral vision, based on love, that helped to define Western thought. Zusammenfassung The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. Ian Clausen's On Love, Confession, Surrender and the Moral Self describes Augustine’s central ideas on morality and how he arrived at them. Describing an intellectual journey that will resonate especially with readers at the beginning of their own journey, Clausen shows that Augustine’s early writing career was an outworking of his own inner turmoil and discovery, and that both were to summit, triumphantly, on his monumental book Confessions (AD 386-401). On Love, Confession, Surrender and the Moral Self offers a way of looking at Augustine’s early writing career as an on-going, developing process: a process whose chief result was to shape a conception of the moral self that has lasted and prospered to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsA Note on Text and TranslationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Being Where We AreChapter 1: Awakening Restless HeartsChapter 2: Avoiding the QuestionChapter 3: Engaging the Despair of SkepticismChapter 4: Escaping the Folly of ManichaeismChapter 5: Entering the Problem of Adam's PlaceConclusion: The Long SurrenderReferencesIndex...
