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The Mystery of Continuity - Time and History, Memory and Eternity in the Thought of St Augustine (Paperback)
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A distinguished scholar's learned but dry exegesis of the often
obscure, always crucial emphasis on "continuity" in St. Augustine's
teachings on God, self, and the Church. To Pelikan, the generally
accepted view of Augustine as a teacher of discontinuity,
particularly those between nature and grace and between the City of
Earth and the City of God, is false. "Beneath and behind these
discontinuities," argues Pelikan, "there lay deeper continuities."
The first lecture, for example, examines Augustine's renowned
conversion, which Pelikan sees not as a departure from classicism
but as a continuation of it, Platonism in particular. Pelikan then
explores Augustine's thought on God, the Church, and the self in
the same fashion, showing how an abiding faith in the necessity for
continuity between past and present, between Heaven and Earth,
underlies the teachings. Unfortunately, while the author obviously
knows his Augustine, there is little here to make the general
reader pick up his ears other than bold assertions about
Augustine's importance and an insightful final lecture dealing with
Augustine's influence on subsequent thinkers from Luther to Hegel.
A thoughtful work which will intrigue students of Augustine - and
send all others in search of some strong black coffee. (Kirkus
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