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Retrieving Freedom - The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition (Hardcover)
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Retrieving Freedom - The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition (Hardcover)
Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
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Retrieving Freedom is a provocative, big-picture book, taking a
long view of the “rise and fall” of the classical understanding
of freedom. In response to the evident shortcomings of the notion
of freedom that dominates contemporary discourse, Retrieving
Freedom seeks to return to the sources of the Western tradition to
recover a more adequate understanding. This book begins by setting
forth the ancient Greek conception—summarized from the conclusion
of D. C. Schindler’s previous tour de force of political and
moral reasoning, Freedom from Reality—and the ancient Hebrew
conception, arguing that at the heart of the Christian vision of
humanity is a novel synthesis of the apparently opposed views of
the Greeks and Jews. This synthesis is then taken as a measure that
guides an in-depth exploration of landmark figures framing the
history of the Christian appropriation of the classical tradition.
Schindler conducts his investigation through five different
historical periods, focusing in each case on a polarity, a pair of
figures who represent the spectrum of views from that time:
Plotinus and Augustine from late antiquity, Dionysius the
Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor from the patristic period,
Anselm and Bernard from the early middle ages, Bonaventure and
Aquinas from the high middle ages, and, finally, Godfrey of
Fontaines and John Duns Scotus from the late middle ages. In the
end, we rediscover dimensions of freedom that have gone missing in
contemporary discourse, and thereby identify tasks that remain to
be accomplished. Schindler’s masterful study will interest
philosophers, political theorists, and students and scholars of
intellectual history, especially those who seek an alternative to
contemporary philosophical understandings of freedom.
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