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Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine

Autor Joseph Clair
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mar 2016
Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine turns to the vast collection of moral advice found in Augustine's letters and sermons, mining these neglected and highly illuminating texts for examples of Augustine's application of his own moral concepts. It focuses on letters and sermons in which Augustine offers concrete advice on how to interact with the various goods relevant to social and political life. A special set of goods reappears throughout the letters and sermons, namely sexual intimacy and domestic life, power and public office, and wealth and private possessions. Together, these goods form the central topics of this book.Joseph Clair highlights that the most revealing cases are those in which an individual must choose between competing goods, and cases in which an individual's role and role--specific obligations inform their decisions. Such cases uncover the nimbleness of Augustine's moral reasoning in action--an artful blend of scriptural interpretation, virtue theory, and sensitivity to the circumstances of individual lives. He reveals that Augustine's understanding of the goods constitutive of social and political life is deeply indebted to the Stoic and Peripatetic doctrine of oikeiōsis, or "social appropriation". The colorful, personal, and practical details found in these writings provide a window onto Augustine's moral reasoning not available in his more theoretical treatments of the good, and the concrete cases often illustrate the human significance of properly discerning the good. Beyond providing one of the first analyses of these ethical writings, this work contributes a new sense of Augustine's ethics--both in terms of the range of questions he addresses and the manner in which he treats them.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198757764
ISBN-10: 019875776X
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 141 x 221 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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In Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine, Joseph Clair provides a succinct yet useful study of Augustine's reflection on the good, specifically in his sermons and letters...Clair unfolds this notion of Augustine's life and ministry in a well-researched and fluid text. By dwelling on the sermons and letters, with occasional support from various treatises, Clair helps readers see Augustine as pastor, friend, and moral thinker in a refreshing and much-needed manner.
Clair's research constitutes a helpful contribution to scholarship on Augustine's epistolary and homiletic output. When set alongside the work of Dodaro and Dupont, it does not feel out of place. As scholars continue to deepen our appreciation of the Augustinian canon beyond the masterpieces, Clair's book should see a long afterlifeeven if it must remain a temporal rather than an eternal good, properly speaking.
Clair has surely made an enduring contribution to the understanding of Augustine's pratical ethics, and how it is possible to discern the good in a world filled with falsehood and confusion.
an accurate and alluring way into Augustine's theology of spiritual discernment

Notă biografică

Joseph Clair is Director of the William Penn Honors Program and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Fox University.