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Must Read for Lovers of Augustine,
This review is from: Love and Saint Augustine (Paperback)
I first read this book many years ago, so my recollection is a little hazy, but when I ran across Arendt's dissertation on Amazon, I could not resist making some comment on what was an outstanding addition to my collection of books about Augustine. I strongly encourage anyone interested in Augustine to read this book. The book does have a strong "philosophical bent" to it but is not so weighty a presentation to discourage the educated reader. The book is full of insights and well turned statements on ontology, volition, love, and man's relationship to an all encompassing Creator. Contemporary critics of Catholicism tend to chide and deride the Augustinian project using feminist, trendy Gnostic catagories to abuse a great thinker in the early church, but the reader of Arendt's book will find a sound and reasoned presentation of the Augustinian perspective absent of biases found in current criticism. Another fine book to read with Arendt's book would be the slightly more academic work by Emilie Zum Brunn, St. Augustine: Being and Nothingness.
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Love and Saint Augustine by Hannah Arendt (Paperback - April 26, 1998)
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