On Christian belief
β Scribed by of Hippo Saint Augustine; Boniface Ramsey (editor)
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 386
- Series
- The works of Saint Augustine : a translation for the 21st century
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The seven works of Saint Augustine that are contained in this volume all deal with the problem of faith in God. They were written over the course of three decades, beginning with True Religion (390) and extending to the Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Charity (c. 421). Hence this selection of writings provides an impressive insight into the intellectual and spiritual development of one of the greatest of all Western minds, as it grappled with a question that has never ceased to preoccupy and stimulate Western thought: Is it reasonable to believe in God, and what form might such belief take?
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vi, 319 pages : 23 cm
This book is aimed at those Christians who have begun to question the conventional understandings of Jesus, and Christianity, and even of what we mean by "God," and have become discomforted by the dissonance between their own thinking and the church's stance. A critical thinker by inclination and ed