Augustine and the Limits of Virtue: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Augustine’s moral psychology was one of the richest in late antiquity, and in this book James Wetzel evaluates its development, indicating that the insights offered by Augustine on free-will have been prevented from receiving full appreciation as the resu... Details...

Augustine on Evil: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Augustine, perhaps the most important and most widely read Father of the Church, first became preoccupied with the problem of evil in his boyhood, and this preoccupation continued throughout his life. Augustine's ideas about evil were to mark out the bounda... Details...

Augustine's City of God A Reader's Guide: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The City of God is the most influential of Augustine's works which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. It's scope embodies cosmology, psychology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, bibl... Details...

Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The City of God is the most influential of Augustine's works, which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. This book is the first comprehensive modern guide to it in any language. The City of God's scope embodies cosmology, psycholog... Details...

Augustine: A Very Short Introduction: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Augustine was arguably the greatest early Christian philosopher. His teachings had a profound effect on medieval scholarship, Renaissance humanism, and the religious controversies of both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Here, Henry Chadwick pla... Details...

Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: The aim of this work is to show how Augustine adapted a deeply Platonic outlook to the new world of Christianity, and how he constructed a vision in which Platonism and Christianity pointed in the same direction. Augustine is skillfully contextualized, whil... Details...

Augustine: Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book is the first systematic attempt to consider the social and cultural context that shaped the life and thought of Augustine. Carol Harrison shows how his beliefs in both Christian truth and human fallenness effected a decisive break with classical i... Details...

Augustine: Confessions Books I-IV — Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This volume presents the Latin text of one of the great classics of Christian literature, accompanied by a commentary. Confessions is concerned with one human life as an example of what it is to be human and in search of God. In books I-IV, Augustine reflec... Details...

Cambridge History of the Bible- Series: The Cambridge History of the Bible: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Volume 3 covers the effects of the Bible on the history of the West between the Reformation and the publication of the New English Bible. Details...

Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: 'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This innovative study sets the emergence of Christian identity i... Details...