The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought

by Brian Stock Comp

Well before his entry into the religious life in the spring of 386 C.E., Augustine had embarked on a lengthy comparison between teachings on the self in the philosophical traditions of Platonism and Neoplatonism and the treatment of the topic in the Psalms, the letters of St. Paul, and other books of the Bible. Brian Stock argues that Augustine, over the course of these reflections, gradually abandoned a dualistic view of the self, in which the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248716
• ISBN13: 9780812248715
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"