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Type.................: Lecture
Platform.............: All
Number of Parts......: 23
Compression Format...: RAR
Image type...........: CD Rip

Artist...............: Professor Phillip Cary
Album................: Augustine: Philosopher and Saint
Year.................: 1997
Genre................: Lecture
Number of Songs......: 12
Cover(s) Included....: Yes (integrated in MP3)
Audio Format.........: MP3

Posted by............: bactrian
Posted to............: alt.binaries.boneless


This course paints a rich and detailed portrait of the life, works, and ideas of this remarkable figure, whose own search for God as profoundly shaped all of Western Christianity.

You learn what Augustine taught and why he taught it—and how whose teachings and doctrines helped shape the Roman Catholic Church.

These lectures are rewarding even if you have no background at all in classical philosophy or Christian theology. This is because Professor Cary, who has taught Villanova's nationally recognized seminars on ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and modern thought, has organized an entirely self-contained course.

Professor Cary (Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Yale University) is a scholar-in-residence at the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University, where he is director of the Philosophy program and teaches a year-long Great Books seminar. He is author of Augustine's Invention of the Modern Self (Oxford University Press).

Professor Cary explains any special religious or philosophical concepts you need to know in order to appreciate Augustine's impact, with real-life examples and analogies that make even the most subtle concepts clear and easy to understand.

You'll gain a sense of what Augustine was saying, how his own experiences led him to say it, and how his thoughts fit into the theological, philosophical, and political worlds that swirled around him.