- Hardcover: 284 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (6 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521807158
- ISBN-13: 978-0521807159
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,429,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This sort of book is very much to be welcomed … an engaging book, from which much can be learned.' Theology
'… I plan to re-read it soon, so full is it of lively wisdom and insight about material I thought I knew well already.' Church Times
'In a sensitive, creative and beautifully written account of augustine … Matthewes presents an account of evil that is in part metaphysical (supra-personal), but conceived more as energy than substance …' Church Times
'While constantly demonstrating the author's impressive erudition and capacity for complex argumentation, this eloquent treatise never loses its readability. Whether or not they ultimately accept the book's persuasive argument, readers will find their thought productively stimulated by this rich volume.' Reviews in Religion and Theology
'… I plan to re-read it soon, so full is it of lively wisdom and insight about material I thought I knew well already.' Church Times
'In a sensitive, creative and beautifully written account of augustine … Matthewes presents an account of evil that is in part metaphysical (supra-personal), but conceived more as energy than substance …' Church Times
'While constantly demonstrating the author's impressive erudition and capacity for complex argumentation, this eloquent treatise never loses its readability. Whether or not they ultimately accept the book's persuasive argument, readers will find their thought productively stimulated by this rich volume.' Reviews in Religion and Theology
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This explores the 'family biography' of the Augustinian tradition by looking at Augustine's work and its development in the writings of Hannah Arendt and Reinhold Niebuhr. Mathewes argues that the Augustinian tradition offers us a powerful, though commonly misconstrued, proposal for understanding and responding to evil's challenges. The book casts light on Augustine, Niebuhr and Arendt, as well as on the problem of evil, the nature of tradition, and the role of theological and ethical discourse in contemporary thought.
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Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the few twentieth-century works which attempt to grapple with the phenomenon of evil, and of those few it is one of the most profound. Read the first page
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Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the few twentieth-century works which attempt to grapple with the phenomenon of evil, and of those few it is one of the most profound. Read the first page
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Examening the dark absence
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Matthewes teaches religious studies at the University of Virginia and here brings the vast literature on the "problem " of evil, and especially the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr and Hannah Arendt, into conversation with St. Augustine. The argument is gracefully, and at points poetically, presented, and, in a sometimes indirect but effective manner, is solidly grounded in the cross and resurrection. Especially noteworthy is the author's appreciation of the many dynamics of "tradition" in Christian knowing, believing, and teaching. THis is a First Things review
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