Augustine in Context by Tarmo Toom HARDBACK 9781107139107

Augustine in Context\nby Tarmo Toom\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tarmo Toom\nTitle: Augustine in Context\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Theology\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781107139107\nISBN-10: 1107139104\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAugustine in Context assesses the various contexts - historical, literary, cultural, spiritual - in whichAugustine lived and worked. The essays, written by an international team of scholars especially for this volume, provide the background against which Augustine''s treatises should be read and interpreted. They are organized according to a rationale which moves from an introduction to the person (the so-called ''personal context'') to the contexts of Augustine''s works and ideas, starting.