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Augustine and the Problem of Power

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by Charles Norris Cochrane

    • Author

      Charles Norris Cochrane

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Cascade Books

    • Published

      October 2017

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      More than seventy years after his untimely death, this collection of essays and lectures provides the first appearance of Charles Norris Cochrane's follow-up to his seminal work, Christianity and Classical Culture. Augustine and the Problem of Power provides an accessible entrance into the vast sweep of Cochrane's thought through his topical essays and lectures on Augustine, Roman history and literature, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Edward Gibbon. These shorter writings demonstrate the impressive breadth of Cochrane's mastery of Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought. Here he develops the political implications of Christianity's new concepts of sin and grace that transformed late antiquity, set the stage for the medieval world that followed, and faced the reactions of the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Cochrane analyzes the revival of classical thought that animated Machiavelli's politics as well as Gibbon's historiography. Written amid the chaos and confusion of depression and world war in the twentieth century, Cochrane's writings addressed the roots of problems of his own ""distracted age"" and are just as relevant today for the distractions of our own age. ""To have available these essays of Charles Norris Cochrane is a belated treasure. Few people understood the relation of culture to politics, religion, and economics better than he. He understood the abiding realities of historical origins as well as the unique place of Augustine in the more general question of the meaning of history."" --

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      • Author

        Charles Norris Cochrane

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Cascade Books

      • Published

        October 2017

      • Weight

        382g

      • Dimensions

        153 x 227 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9781498294249

      • ISBN-10

        1498294243

      • Eden Code

        4543989

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      • Author/Creator: Charles Norris Cochrane

      • ISBN: 9781498294249

      • Publisher: Cascade Books

      • Release Date: October 2017

      • Weight: 382g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 4543989


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