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Rethinking Augustine's Early Theology
Carol Harrison challenges the almost universally accepted interpretation of the development of Augustine's theology. In this book she proposes a new thesis, arguing for a fundamental continuity in Augustine's belief and practice from the moment of his conversion, and so enhances a major scholarly debate.
On Music, Sense, Affect and Voice
This book explores early reflections on music and its effects on the mind and soul. Augustine is an obvious choice for such an analysis, as his De Musica is the only treatise on music by a Christian writer in the first five centuries AD; concerned not only with poetic metre and rhythm, but also with an ontology of music. Focusing on the six books of De Musica, the Confessions and the Homilies on the Psalms, Carol Harrison argues that Augustine establishes a psychology, ethics and aesthetics of musical perception, which considered together form an effective theology of music. For Augustine, music-both heard and performed- becomes the means by which we can sense and participate in divine grace. Composed by one of the world's foremost Augustine scholars, this book is a concise and powerful exploration of Augustine's writing and reflections on music and, by extension, the intimate relationship between music, religion, and philosophy.
Jan Karski
A book of fine art portraits of Jan Karski, including photographs of Georgetown University, and remembrances by Carol Harrison, former School of Foreign Service, student, and Dean Peter F. Krogh.
Augustine
St. Augustine, the North African bishop of Hippo (AD 354-430), has been much studied. But there has been no systematic attempt to consider the context which shaped his life and thought. Augustine's long and controversial career and his vast literary output provide unrivalled evidence for understanding the diverse ways in which Christianity confronted, assimilated, and finally transformed the traditional society of late antiquity. This book sets Augustine in his cultural and social context showing how, as a Christian, he came to terms with the philosophical and rhetorical ideals of classical culture, and, as a bishop, with the ecclesiastical, ascetic, and political structures of late antique society. According to Augustine, the Fall of man and Original sin fracture and vitiate mankind's ability to know or to will the good. This is revealed as the keystone of his theology, effecting a decisive break with classical ideals of perfection and shaping the distinctive theology of WesternChristendom.
Rockne Krebs
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Sirenes Contemporaines
Mermaids are wonderful marine creatures found in fables in every culture in the world throughout history. There is a wealth of mystery and allure to these beautiful creatures. Delving deeper into the mythological lore, mermaids are quite contemporary in their independence; especially of spirit but also of how to live one's life to be true, unrelated to any norm. Sirenes contemporaines is a book of magical photographs of mermaids and life underwater in the sea with related quotations.
The Art of Listening in the Early Church
The sense of hearing was particularly important in the ancient world when the majority of people were illiterate. Rhetoric has been given attention in this context, but listening has been virtually ignored. This book deals with the practical and theological issues which listening to an incorporeal, unknowable God raised for early Christians.
