Inner Grace
Subtitle: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: February 20, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780195336481
Subjects: Christian theology; Early Church; Philosophy of religion; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Christian Theology - General; Religious; Religion / Theology; Religion; Religion - Theology
Description: Most theologians want to paint the development of Augustine's doctrine of grace as a turn away from Platonist philosophy to something more distinctively Christian, but Phillip Cary argues that it is a synthesis of the two, a development within Augustine's Christian Platonism.