The Augustinian Theology of W. H. Auden

by Stephen J. Schuler

When W. H. Auden returned to Christianity in the early 1940s, he identified himself with what he called an "existential" method of spiritual and literary inquiry, which the writings of St. Augustine helped him define as a mode of thinking that not only allows for human subjectivity, but emphasizes the hopes, fears, needs, desires, and anxieties of the individual. Augustine thus became for Auden a model of a thinker who seamlessly merged psychological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611172438
• ISBN13: 9781611172430
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"