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This study examines the relationship between pre-Christian and Augustinian aesthetics as it emerges in four of Augustine’s major works: de Musica, Confessions, de Doctrina Christiana, and de Civitate Dei. It places these treatises against the historical circumstances in which each was written, and notes their unusual propositions against which one can understand the development of early Christian literary theory. It considers at length how Augustine modifies secular aesthetics to satisfy the needs of the emerging Church, the role of truth and its relation to literary invention, the place of the self and its relation to community, and the evolution of early secular allegory. Other Religion-Patristics & Early Christianity Books 1990 – Identity of Anselm’s Proslogion Argument for the Existence of God with the Via Quarta of Thomas Aquinas 2002 – Cult of Isis in the Roman Empire 2001 – Middle English Chronicle of the First Crusade – The Caxton Eracles Volume 2
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