| Sumario: | This major work constitutes a significant attempt to provide a detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine's thought as a whole. It describes the transformation of Greco-Roman philosophy into the version that was to become the most influential in the history of Western thought. Augustine weighed some of the major themes of classical philosophy and ancient culture against the truth he found in the Bible and Catholic tradition, and reformulated these in Christian dress.
The author identifies the fundamental themes in Augustine's theology and philosophy (such as belief and knowledge soul, body and the person; love and the will; marriage and sexuality in a fallen world; the virtues; the nature of moral acts; and God's providence, predestination, and omnipotence), and puts a fresh perspective on Augustine's chief concerns, so that those concerns may speak to us more intelligibly.
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