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Augustine Deformed - Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition (Paperback)
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Augustine Deformed - Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition (Paperback)
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Augustine established a moral framework that dominated Western
culture for more than a thousand years. His partly flawed
presentation of some of its key concepts (love, will and freedom),
however, prompted subsequent thinkers to attempt to repair this
framework, and their efforts often aggravated the very problems
they intended to solve. Over time, dissatisfaction with an
imperfect Augustinian theology gave way to increasingly secular and
eventually impersonal moral systems. This volume traces the
distortion of Augustine's thought from the twelfth century to the
present and examines its consequent reconstructions. John M. Rist
argues that modern philosophies should be recognized as offering no
compelling answers to questions about the human condition and as
leading inevitably to conventionalism or nihilism. In order to
avoid this end, he proposes a return to an updated Augustinian
Christianity. Essential reading for anyone interested in Augustine
and his influence, Augustine Deformed revitalizes his original
conception of love, will and freedom.
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