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The mystery of continugy

Hardcover • 1986 • English

The mystery of continugy : Time and history and eternity in the thought of Saint Augustine

By Jaroslav Pelikan

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AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO was, by common consent, the most influential thinker in the Western world between classical antiquity and the Renaissance. Indeed, both our image of classical antiquity and the ideas of the Renaissance owe much to his inspiration. Since the year 1986 marked the 1600th anniversary of Augustine's conversion to Christianity, this is an appropriate time to reconsider his importance. Perhaps no question, except the problem of God, so obsessed Augustine as the issue of time, with it...Show more

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The mystery of continugy

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