Augustine de Civitate Dei: His Legacy and Relevance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781921511738)

If the defining feature of the Middle Ages is it churches, the defining architect of its mind, heart and soul- at least until Aquinas - is St Augustine. The Church was the spiritual army whose leaders were its fathers. And in that sense, Augustine's thought is closer in modern terms to a revolutionary like Lenin than it is to a philosopher's. A philosopher may well be part of a broad movment, but his appeal is usually to first principles rather than to a body of faith, even if once philsophies are entrenched, very questionable first principles easily become matters of faith, and the collection of a philosophers' members form a kind of church. This collection examines Augustine's core ideas and brings scholars from the USA, EU, Australia and Asia.

Author: Wayne Cristaudo
ISBN-10: 1921511737
ISBN-13: 9781921511738
Publisher: ATF Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2010
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 23