{"product_id":"a-companion-to-augustine-paperback","title":"A Companion to Augustine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Vessey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents Augustine's life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOpens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eState-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugustine (354-430 CE) stands with Homer, Plato, and Aristotle among the pre-eminent authorities in Western culture, and his \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e is the only literary work from the early Christian centuries (aside from the New Testament) that is still widely read today. Long recognized as an outstanding Christian theologian, he has in recent decades also acquired a reputation as an exceptional exponent of the culture of the late Roman world, one whose texts vividly bring the era to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis companion is the first to present Augustine as a historical figure within an expanded world of late antiquity. State-of-the-art essays by leading specialists in this field provide orientation to his material, social, and intellectual milieu; his life and career; his writings; issues of the day with which he was engaged; and the main phases of his latter-day reception and influence. Each chapter pulls together resources for readers who want to anchor historically important Augustinian ideas and impulses in the complex realities of the author's life and afterlife. The result is a multifaceted portrait of Augustine in action in his own and later times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Vessey\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Principal of Green College at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLatin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and has edited \u003ci\u003eAugustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to \u003c\/i\u003eConfessions (2005) and \u003ci\u003eThe Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.5 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735845081151,"sku":"9781119025559","price":105.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f9784748150861fe0f1c6ff80a595172.webp?v=1765144879","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-companion-to-augustine-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}