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The mind of Latin Christendom.
- Title
- The mind of Latin Christendom.
- Author
- Pickman, Edward Motley, 1886-
- Publication
- New York, Oxford University Press, 1937.
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| vol.1 | Text | Use in library | 1408.717 vol.1 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 738 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- I. The threshold. The Enlightenment of 373 -- The pagan problem of evil -- Christian revelation -- Christian philosophy -- II. Augustine. Augustine's pagan phase -- Augustine from 387-400 -- Augustine's mature doctrine -- Augustine on science -- Augustine on history -- Decline and decadence -- III. Miracles. The new virtues -- The demand for miracles -- Miracles of the martyrs -- Miracles of the confessors -- The skeptics -- Augustine on miracles -- IV. The bishops. The ailing state -- The church's remedy -- Role of the bishops, 406-454 -- Role of the bishops, 455-486 -- The nobles as bishops -- V. Justice on earth. Denial of justice on earth -- Justice on earth for monks -- Manichee and Epicurean in 445 -- Salvian: justice on earth -- Salvian on virtue -- Survival of the fittest -- VI. Free Will. Early theories of free will -- Augustine on free will -- Pelagius and Cassian -- Prosper; the anonymous texts -- Faustus of Riez on free will -- Astrology and theurgy -- VII. Monasticism. Monasticism before 406 -- Cassian's monasticism -- The monastery of Lerins -- The miracle after 406 -- Justice, matter, will: 470 on -- VIII. The Papacy. Nicaea to Damasus, 325-373 -- Damasus and Ambrose, 373-397 -- Augustine and the papacy -- Africa and Nestorius, 402-432 -- Leo and Eutyches, 432-461 -- Monophysites and Felix, 461-492 -- Gelasius, 492-496.
- OCLC
- ocm00885487
- 885487
- SCSB-147944
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library