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Augustine's intellectual conversion : = the journey from Platonism to Christianity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Augustine's intellectual conversion :/ Brian Dobell.
Reminder of title:	the journey from Platonism to Christianity /
Author:	Dobell, Brian,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Conversion - Christianity. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511691744
ISBN:	9780511691744 (ebook)

Augustine's intellectual conversion : = the journey from Platonism to Christianity /
Dobell, Brian,1976-

Augustine's intellectual conversion :the journey from Platonism to Christianity /Brian Dobell. - 1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Augustine's conversion to Christianity -- The way of authority -- The development of Augustine's Christology -- The way of reason -- The problem of evil and the development of Augustine's metaphysics -- The graded ascent -- The rejection of Platonic ascent -- The Ostia ascent -- Augustine the Porphyrian.

This book examines Augustine's intellectual conversion from Platonism to Christianity, as described at Confessions 7.9.13–21.27. It is widely assumed that this occurred in the summer of 386, shortly before Augustine's volitional conversion in the garden at Milan. Brian Dobell argues, however, that Augustine's intellectual conversion did not occur until the mid-390s, and develops this claim by comparing Confessions 7.9.13–21.27 with a number of important passages and themes from Augustine's early writings. He thus invites the reader to consider anew the problem of Augustine's conversion in 386: was it to Platonism or Christianity? His original and important study will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the history of philosophy and the history of theology.

ISBN: 9780511691744 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

577554
Augustine,
Saint, Bishop of Hippo.Subjects--Topical Terms:

593320
Conversion
--Christianity.

LC Class. No.: BR140 / .D63 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 270.2092

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