Description:
This volume addresses Augustinian influence on the idea of the self from the Middle Ages to modernity in theology, philosophy, history, and literary studies.
Brief description:
Willemien Otten is professor of theology and the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College. She also directs the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion.
Review Quotes:
"This original collection of essays by stellar authors in the field addresses the paradoxical question that animates the best of philosophical and philological inquiry into the future of the religious and theological past: To what current uses can the archive and apparatus of early Christian, patristic, and medieval thought be put, without yielding to anachronistic, myopic, and fundamentally narcissistic appropriations that are the standing temptation of scholars of all generations? Susan E. Schreiner and Willemien Otten frame the project in the most stringent and compelling terms. Their further organization of the material is effective, and the individual articles are well researched, steeped in the thorough analysis and interpretation of primary sources while paying minute attention to the voluminous existing scholarship on Augustine, those who influence him, and those whom he would influence in turn." --Hent de Vries, Paulette Goddard Professor of the Humanities, New York University, and director, School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University