Wiebe Gregory D. (Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Canadian Mennonite University)
Wiebe Gregory D. (Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Canadian Mennonite University) - Fallen Angels In The Theology Of St Augustine - Hardcover
Wiebe Gregory D. (Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Canadian Mennonite University) - Fallen Angels In The Theology Of St Augustine - Hardcover
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Description: This book ventures to describe Augustine of Hippo's understanding of demons including the theology angelology and anthropology that contextualize it. Demons are for Augustine as for the Psalmist (95:5 LXX) and the Apostle (1 Cor 10:20) the "gods of the nations." This means that Augustine's demons are best understood neither when they are "spiritualized" as personifications of psychological struggles nor in terms of materialist contagions that undergird a superstitious moralism. Rather because the gods of the nations are the paradigm of demonic power and influence over humanity Augustine sees the Christian's moral struggle against them within broader questions of social bonds cultural form popular opinion philosophical investigation liturgical movement and so forth. In a word Augustine's demons have a religious significance particularly in its Augustinian sense of bonds and duties between persons and between persons and that which is divine. Demons are a highly integrated component of his broader theology rooted in his conception of angels as the ministers of all creation under God and informed by the doctrine of evil as privation and his understanding of the fall his thoughts on human embodiment desire visions and the limits of human knowledge as well as his theology of religious incorporation and sacraments. As false mediators demons are mediated by false religion the body of the devil which Augustine opposes with an appeal to the true mediator Christ and the true religion of his body the church.
Title: Fallen Angels In The Theology Of St Augustine
Author(s): Wiebe Gregory D. (Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Canadian Mennonite University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192846037
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 12/28/2021
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
Category: Christian Theology
Description: This book ventures to describe Augustine of Hippo's understanding of demons including the theology angelology and anthropology that contextualize it. Demons are for Augustine as for the Psalmist (95:5 LXX) and the Apostle (1 Cor 10:20) the "gods of the nations." This means that Augustine's demons are best understood neither when they are "spiritualized" as personifications of psychological struggles nor in terms of materialist contagions that undergird a superstitious moralism. Rather because the gods of the nations are the paradigm of demonic power and influence over humanity Augustine sees the Christian's moral struggle against them within broader questions of social bonds cultural form popular opinion philosophical investigation liturgical movement and so forth. In a word Augustine's demons have a religious significance particularly in its Augustinian sense of bonds and duties between persons and between persons and that which is divine. Demons are a highly integrated component of his broader theology rooted in his conception of angels as the ministers of all creation under God and informed by the doctrine of evil as privation and his understanding of the fall his thoughts on human embodiment desire visions and the limits of human knowledge as well as his theology of religious incorporation and sacraments. As false mediators demons are mediated by false religion the body of the devil which Augustine opposes with an appeal to the true mediator Christ and the true religion of his body the church.
Title: Fallen Angels In The Theology Of St Augustine
Author(s): Wiebe Gregory D. (Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Academic Administrator And Adjunct Professor Canadian Mennonite University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192846037
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 12/28/2021
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
Category: Christian Theology
