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Biografisk notat
Carol Harrison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, UK. She is the author of The Art of Listening in the Early Church (2013), Rethinking the Development of Augustine’s Early Theology: An Argument for Continuity (2006), Augustine: Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity (2000), and Revelation and Beauty in the Thought of Saint Augustine (1992). She is the Editor of the Routledge Early Church Fathers book series and is past President of the International Association of Patristic Studies.The book gives a helpful map of theistic and nontheistic spiritualities, but due, in part, to its broad and comprehensive nature, specialists in the different areas covered will find issues to challenge and argue about.
Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society
This is a critically important book … [It] becomes very clear that the significance of Carol Harrison’s study extends far beyond the fourth century, and concerns every major locus of Christian theology.
Modern Theology
Harrison’s book will be an asset for any academic library that serves students of music history, philosophy, and theology. It is a valuable assemblage of primary materials, a rich source of often unusual secondary sources, and an interesting presentation of a point of view that merits further consideration.
Catholic Library World
Harrison’s study captures the dialectical texture of Augustine’s thinking about music, as she strings along puzzles, resolutions and new puzzles with fugal complexity … by helping us read Augustine’s thinking on music, with all its twists and turns, Harrison invites us into a rich conversation that gets at questions basic to human experience.
Theology
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: The Conversion of the Senses
Chapter Two: The Conversion of the Affections
Chapter Three: The Conversion of the Voice
Bibliography
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Reading Augustine presents books that offer personal, nuanced and oftentimes literary readings of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Each time, the idea is to treat Augustine as a spiritual and intellectual icon of the Western tradition, and to read through him to some or other pressing concern of our current day. Or to some enduring issue or theme. In this way, the writers follow the model of Augustine himself, who produced his famous output of words and ideas in active tussle with the world in which he lived. When the series launched, this approach could raise eyebrows, but now that technology and pandemics have brought us into the world and society like never before, and when scholarship is expected to live the same way and responsibly, the series is well-set and thriving.
Books in the series feature some of the world’s leading names, and new names continue to be brought through. The series is also known for its openness and diversity, and for introducing scholars from disciplines other than patristics where their insights can be decisive. It is also becoming a venue for European scholars, some of whom will be engaging an English-speaking audience for the first time. The books feature a strong design ethic and their affordable paperback editions help them to go out to a wide readership of scholars, students and the interested general reader.
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