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The Augustinian Person (Hardcover)
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The Augustinian Person (Hardcover)
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Augustine's notions of human nature and of person have not received
adequate systematic treatment, despite their centrality to all the
important areas of his thought. Although he notoriously changed his
mind on many major points, his explorations of human nature and
person remained central and to a great extent consistent across his
mature and most important works. In this insightful and accessible
book, Peter Burnell examines the crucial issues in Augustine's
understanding of these two related subjects, and concentrates on
Augustine's fullest development of that understanding. Through
careful analysis of Augustine's writings, Burnell concludes that
Augustine conceives of human nature as a unity at every level -
socially, morally, and in basic constitution - despite very common
objections that he fails to achieve such a conception. Furthermore,
Augustine's doctrine of the Incarnation is the basis of his notion
of person - not only human but divine. Thus the eternal
relationships of God's interior life, though unchanging, have
always had an outward bearing, in the sense of being eternally
oriented on the Incarnation. Continued interest in Augustine as a
historical figure and a resource for contemporary reflection, as
well as contemporary theorizing, by both philosophers and
theologians, about the human person makes this study significant
not only for the understanding of Augustine but for more general
questions raised today regarding the human person.
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