Augustine's Theology of the Resurrection
Augustine's Theology of the Resurrection
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GBPIn this volume, Augustine M. Reisenauer, O.P. provides a comprehensive study of Augustine's theology of the resurrection, the human return from death to life. Contextualizing Augustine within the early Church and the intellectual and religious cultures of the late Roman Empire,he interrogates the development of Augustine's thoughts on the historical resurrection of Jesus Christ, the spiritual resurrection of the soul in time, and the fleshly resurrection of the body at the end of time. Augustine offers profound insights into issues of personal and communal identity, human continuity and transformation, historical and eschatological events, and the God of the resurrection. He also elaborates a biblical paradigm that acknowledges how the resurrected Christ offers an intrinsic participation in his paschal mystery to the souls and bodies of the rest of humanity. Proposing fresh ideas regarding a central topic in Christian theology, Reisenauer's, study also reveals Augustine's defenses of the resurrection against its pagan, philosophical and heretical opponents.
- Provides a comprehensive approach to the resurrection in the thought of Augustine
- Tracks developments and shifts in Augustine's theology of the resurrection
- Discusses Augustine's defenses of the resurrection against its pagan, philosophical, and heretical opponents
Reviews & endorsements
'An essential book on Augustine's theology of the resurrection. [The author] succeeds brilliantly in showing the resurrection's centrality to Augustine's work and, more importantly, to Christian life.' Terence Sweeney, Augustiniana
'… a work that will be of value to seasoned scholars as well as new students of Augustine.' Richard Finn, The Thomist
Product details
March 2023Hardback
9781009269063
262 pages
235 × 155 × 22 mm
0.57kg
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Table of Contents
- I. Early Considerations of the Resurrection:
- 1. The Adumbration of the Resurrection
- 2. The Restoration of Humanity to the Pristine Stability of Paradise
- 3. The Transmutation of Human Flesh into an Angelic Body
- II. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ:
- 4. The Enduring Reality of Christ's Resurrected Flesh
- 5. The Encounter with Christ's Resurrected Flesh
- 6. The Sacramentality and Exemplarity of Christ's Resurrected Flesh
- III. The Resurrection of the Human Spirit:
- 7. The Contents of the Spiritual Resurrection
- 8. The Spiritual Resurrection of Augustine's Soul
- 9: Extreme Expressions of the Spiritual Resurrection
- IV. The Resurrection of Human Flesh:
- 10. The Future Event of the Fleshly Resurrection
- 11. The Fleshly Resurrection of the Damned
- 12. The Fleshly Resurrection of the Saints
- Epilogue: Augustine Advancing towards the Resurrection.
