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"This panoramic study makes Augustine's theology of the resurrection accessible to students and scholars of theology, religious studies, and late antiquity. Contextualizing Augustine within the early Church and the intellectual and religious cultures of the late Roman Empire, it provides a penetrating analyses of his theological articulations"--
List of contents
I. Early Considerations of the Resurrection: 1. The Adumbration of the Resurrection; 2. The Restoration of Humanity to the Pristine Stability of Paradise; 3. The Transmutation of Human Flesh into an Angelic Body; II. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: 4. The Enduring Reality of Christ's Resurrected Flesh; 5. The Encounter with Christ's Resurrected Flesh; 6. The Sacramentality and Exemplarity of Christ's Resurrected Flesh; III. The Resurrection of the Human Spirit: 7. The Contents of the Spiritual Resurrection; 8. The Spiritual Resurrection of Augustine's Soul; 9: Extreme Expressions of the Spiritual Resurrection; IV. The Resurrection of Human Flesh: 10. The Future Event of the Fleshly Resurrection; 11. The Fleshly Resurrection of the Damned; 12. The Fleshly Resurrection of the Saints; Epilogue: Augustine Advancing towards the Resurrection.
About the author
Augustine M. Reisenauer O.P. is assistant professor in the Department of Theology, Providence College. A scholar of patristics and medieval theology, he is a Catholic priest and a Dominican friar of the Order of Preachers.
Summary
This panoramic study makes Augustine's theology of the resurrection accessible to students and scholars of theology, religious studies, and late antiquity. Contextualizing Augustine within the early Church and the intellectual and religious cultures of the late Roman Empire, it provides a penetrating analyses of his theological articulations.
