23 research outputs found
The Cambridge history of Christianity : V. 2. Constantine to c.600
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Demons and the making of the monk. Spiritual combat in early Christianity. By David Brakke. Pp. xiii+308. Cambridge, MA–London: Harvard University Press, 2006. £32.95 ($49.95). 0 674 01875 3
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Aldhelm of Malmesbury and the end of late antiquity. By G. T. Dempsey . (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 16.) Pp. xiii + 358 incl. 1 map and 3 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. €75 (paper). 978 2 503 55490 7
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The Comparative Analysis of the Prayer of Evagrius Ponticus and Heiler from the Viewpoint of Contemplative Prayer
No full textAugustine on free will
No full text[Extract] There is an enormous scholarly literature on Augustine’s account of free will, and it is remarkable for the range of views it contains. Historians of philosophy read Augustine on free will so variously that it is sometimes difficult to believe they are reading the same texts. One might suppose that this divergence of views is less a difference of historical opinion about Augustine’s account of the will than a difference of philosophical opinion about the nature of free will. But even scholars who are careful to make explicit what they mean by ‘free will’ still don’t agree about the nature of Augustine’s theory of free will. In my view, the confusing difference of interpretation in the literature arises at least in part because presenting Augustine’s theory of free will adequately requires the application of some philosophical nuances that scholars have not generally brought to bear on his texts
