Augustine's Way into the Will by Simon Harrison
Augustine's dialogue De libero arbitrio (On Free Choice) is, with his Confessions and City of God, one of his most important and widely read works. It contains one of the earliest accounts of the concept of 'free will' in the history of philosophy. Composed during a key period in Augustine's early career, between his conversion to Christianity and his ordination as a bishop, it has often been viewed as a an incoherent mixture of his 'early' and 'late' thinking. Simon Harrison offers an original account of Augustine's theory of will, taking seriously both the philosophical arguments and literary form of the text. Relating De libero arbitrio to other key texts of Augustine's, in particular the City of God and the Confessions, Harrison shows that Augustine approaches the problem of free will as a problem of knowledge: how do I know that I am free?, and that Augustine uses the dialogue form to instantiate his 'way into the will'.-
The Suffering of the Impassible God
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The Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor
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Marius Victorinus' Commentary on Galatians
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Grace and Christology in the Early Church
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Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity
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Evagrius of Pontus
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Drama of the Divine Economy
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The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
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Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education
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Law and Legality in the Greek East
- Gregory's Macrina and Plato's Socrates
- Theosis in the Theology of Gregory of Nazianzus
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Visions and Faces of the Tragic
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Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria
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Faith, Piety, and Salvation in Irenaeus of Lyons
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Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology
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St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons
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Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings
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Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature
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Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East
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Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority
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Clement of Alexandria and the Beginnings of Christian Apophaticism
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Marcellus of Ancyra and the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy 325-345
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Union and Distinction in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor
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Origen and Scripture
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The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age
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The Minor Prophets as Christian Scripture in the Commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria
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God and Christ in Irenaeus
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The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea
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Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity
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The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug
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Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan
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Activity and Participation in Late Antique and Early Christian Thought
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Pelagius' Commentary on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans
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Hilary of Poitiers on the Trinity
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Orosius and the Rhetoric of History
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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto
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Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture
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Making Amulets Christian
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The Roman Martyrs
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The Song of Songs and the Fashioning of Identity in Early Latin Christianity
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Debates over the Resurrection of the Dead
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Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery
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Augustine's Commentary on Galatians
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Arnobius of Sicca
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The Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption
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The Byzantine Christ
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Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy
Harrison's detailed attention to the text LibArb., and in particular, to 1.12.25, is reminiscent of Jane Austen's description of 'the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush'. The labour, however, is a rewarding one, demonstrating why for Augustine the reality of the human will is and remains undeniable, and showing us teh connectiions he drawsbetween the human will and our capacities to think and know. * Edward Dowler The Journal of Theological Studies *
Simon Harrison was formerly a Research Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and is currently training in medicine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198269847 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198269846 |
| Title | Augustine's Way into the Will |
| Author | Simon Harrison |
| Series | Oxford Early Christian Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2006-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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