Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized. By John M. Rist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xx + 334pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Despite the subtitle, this book is not another methodologically naive account of how Augustine took over non-Christian philosophy and "baptized" it with accidents of Christian language while leaving its substance unchanged. Rist focuses on "Augustine's evaluation and transmission" and especially "transformation" of Greco-Roman ideas (pp. 1, 6). "[B]ooks on the history of . . . philosophy. . . are gravely reductionist"; they leave behind contributions of social ...

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