Augustine and postmodern thought
Subtitle: a new alliance against modernity?
By: edited by L. Boeve, M. Lamberigts, M. Wisse.
Contributors: Boeve, L.; Lamberigts, M.; Wisse, Maarten, 1973-
Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 219; Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 219
Publisher: Peeters; Peeters Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9789042921207
Subjects: Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Postmodernism; Postmodern theology
Notes: "Revised versions of papers read at the expert symposium ... organised by the Research Group Theology in a Postmodern Context, in Leuven, November 9-11, 2006"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Retrieving Augustine today : between neo-Augustinianist essentialism and radical hermeneutics?  -- Lieven Boeve; title: Metaphysics and theology in tension : a reading of Augustine's De trinitate  -- Emmanuel Falque; title: The darkness of God and the candle of the Lord, or, What John Smith saw and Denys missed : St. Augustine, Denys, and the incommensurability thesis  -- Douglas Hedley; title: Pro salute nostra reparanda : radical orthodoxy's Christology of manifestation versus Augustine's moral Christology  -- Maarten Wisse; title: Augustine and Thomas Aquinas in the light of postmodern thought : other minds scepticism  -- Fergus Kerr; title: A postmodern Augustinian Thomism?  -- Joseph A. Komonchak; title: "Refuge of sinners, pray for us" : Augustine, Aquinas, and the salvation of modernity  -- Anthony Godzieba; title: Factus eram ipse mihi magna quaestio : Augustine, Heidegger, and postmodern philosophy  -- Holger Zaborowski; title: Postmodern thought and the return of Gnosticism : the darkness of Heidegger and the light of Derrida  -- Tom Jacobs; title: The politics of desire : Augustine's political phenomenology  -- James K.A. Smith; title: Ecclesia and res publica : how Augustinian are neo-Augustinian politics? -- Robert Dodaro.