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Salvation and Sin - Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (Hardcover)
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Salvation and Sin - Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (Hardcover)
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In Salvation and Sin, David Aers continues his study of Christian
theology in the later Middle Ages. Working at the nexus of theology
and literature, he combines formidable theological learning with
finely detailed and insightful close readings to explore a cluster
of central issues in Christianity as addressed by Saint Augustine
and by four fourteenth-century writers of exceptional power.
Salvation and Sin explores various modes of displaying the
mysterious relations between divine and human agency, together with
different accounts of sin and its consequences. Theologies of grace
and versions of Christian identity and community are its pervasive
concerns. Augustine becomes a major interlocutor in this book: his
vocabulary and grammar of divine and human agency are central to
Aers' exploration of later writers and their works. After the
opening chapter on Augustine, Aers turns to the exploration of
these concerns in the work of two major theologians of
fourteenth-century England, William of Ockham and Thomas
Bradwardine. From their work, Aers moves to his central text,
William Langland's Piers Plowman, a long multigeneric poem
contributing profoundly to late medieval conversations concerning
theology and ecclesiology. In Langland's poem, Aers finds a
theology and ethics shaped by Christology where the poem's modes of
writing are intrinsic to its doctrine. His thesis will revise the
way in which this canonical text is read. Salvation and Sin
concludes with a reading of Julian of Norwich's profound,
compassionate, and widely admired theology, a reading which brings
her Showings into conversation both with Langland and Augustine.
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