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Clement of Alexandria and the Beginnings of Christian Apophaticism
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 109.99Can humans know God? Can created beings approach the Uncreated? The concept of God and questions about our ability to know him are central to this book. Eastern Orthodox theology distinguishes between knowing God as he is (his divine essence) and as he presents himself (through his energies), and thus it both negates and affirms the basic question:... more...
Augustine's Commentary on Galatians
OUP Oxford 2003; US$ 44.99Now available in English for the first time, Augustine's Commentary on Galatians is his only complete, formal commentary on any book of the Bible and offers unique insights into his understanding of Paul and of his own task as a biblical interpreter. Yet it is one of his least known works today - and this despite its importance in the past for... more...
Augustine's Conversion
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 39.95Colin Starnes teaches Patristics in the Classics Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax. In addition to publishing numerous articles on the transition from antiquity to the medieval period, he is the author of The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato's Republic (WLU Press, 1990). more...
Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 149.99The fourth-century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, has been the subject of a huge variety of interpretations over the past fifty years, from historians, theologians, philosophers, and others. In this highly original study, Morwenna Ludlow analyses these recent readings of Gregory of Nyssa and asks: What do they reveal about modern and postmodern... more...
Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 110.00The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers refer to a group of miscellaneous Christian writings produced in the first and second centuries. The authors of these writings were considered by seventeenth century scholars to be the next generation of Apostles and as a result were named The Apostolic Fathers. Perceived by many scholars to be the most important... more...
Confessions of Saint Augustine
Continuum International Publishing 1944; US$ 110.00Sheed's classic translation of Augustine's Confessions. True to the original, and in a subtle and dignified English translation, let this be a cornerstone of your library. more...
St Augustine
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00St Augustine is indisputably a major thinker in education. Ryan Topping's volume offers the most coherent account of St Augustine's educational thought. This work is divided into:. Series Editor's Preface Foreword. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Part 1: Intellectual Biography. 1 Approaching Augustine. Part 2: Critical Explosion. 2 The... more...
The Irrational Augustine
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 109.99The Irrational Augustine takes the notion of St Augustine as rigid and dogmatic Father of the Church and turns it on its head. Catherine Conybeare reads Augustine's earliest works to discover the anti-dogmatic Augustine, who values changeability and human interconnectedness and deplores social exclusion. The novelty of her book lies in taking seriously... more...









