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Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement (Hardcover)
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Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine
Judgement considers the relationship between Augustine's account of
God's judgment and his theology of grace in his early works. How
does God use his law and the penal consequences of its
transgression in the service of his grace, both personally and
through his 'agents' on earth? Augustine reflected on this question
from different perspectives. As a teacher and bishop, he thought
about the nature of discipline and punishment in the education of
his pupils, brothers, and congregants. As a polemicist against the
Manichaeans and as a biblical expositor, he had to grapple with
issues regarding God's relationship to evil in the world, the
violence God displays in the Old Testament, and in the death of his
own Son. Furthermore, Augustine meditated on the way God's judgment
and grace related in his own life, both before and after his
conversion. Bart van Egmond follows the development of Augustine's
early thought on judgment and grace from the Cassiacum writings to
the Confessions. The argument is contextualized both against the
background of the earlier Christian tradition of reflection on the
providential function of divine chastisement, and the tradition of
psychagogy that Augustine inherited from a variety of rhetorical
and philosophical sources. This study expertly contributes to the
ongoing scholarly discussion on the development of Augustine's
doctrine of grace, and to the conversation on the theological roots
of his justification of coercion against the Donatists.
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