Title: Augustine and the functions of concupiscence /
Authors: Nisula, Timo.
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Augustine,; Lust Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines; Sex Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines; Emotions Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines; Lust Religious aspects Christianity.
Abstract: "....Timo Nisula analyses Augustine's own theological and philosophical concerns in his extensive writings about evil desire (concupiscentia, cupiditas, libido). Beginning with a terminlogical survey of the vocabulary of desire, the book demonstrates how the concept of evil desire was tightly linked with Augustine's fundamental theological views of divine justice, the origina of evil, Christian virtues and graces."--Back cover.
Contents: The language of desire -- Paradise and punishment -- The root and matrix of sin -- Concupiscentia and philosophical traditions of emotions -- Grace and renewal : the domestication of concupiscentia.