Fallen Angels in the Theology of St Augustine 1st Edition by Gregory Wiebe ISBN 0192661140 9780192661142

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ISBN 10: 0192661140

ISBN 13: 9780192661142

Author:  Gregory D. Wiebe 

Fallen Angels in the Theology of St Augustine 1st Edition: This book ventures to describe Augustine of Hippo’s understanding of demons, including the theology, angelology, and anthropology that contextualize it. Demons are, for Augustine as for the Psalmist (95:5 LXX) and the Apostle (1 Cor 10:20), the “gods of the nations.” This means that Augustine’s demons are best understood neither when they are “spiritualized” as personifications of psychological struggles, nor in terms of materialist contagions that undergird a superstitious moralism. Rather, because the gods of the nations are the paradigm of demonic power and influence over humanity, Augustine sees the Christian’s moral struggle against them within broader questions of social bonds, cultural form, popular opinion, philosophical investigation, liturgical movement, and so forth. In a word, Augustine’s demons have a religious significance, particularly in its Augustinian sense of bonds and duties between persons, and between persons and that which is divine. Demons are a highly integrated component of his broader theology, rooted in his conception of angels as the ministers of all creation under God, and informed by the doctrine of evil as privation and his understanding of the fall, his thoughts on human embodiment, desire, visions, and the limits of human knowledge, as well as his theology of religious incorporation and sacraments. As false mediators, demons are mediated by false religion, the body of the devil, which Augustine opposes with an appeal to the true mediator, Christ, and the true religion of his body, the church.

 

Fallen Angels in the Theology of St Augustine 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. The Angels of God

• The Remote God
• The Eternal God
• The Creation of the Angels
• Angelic Knowledge
• The Providence of God
• Christ in the Ministry of Angels

2. The Fall of the Angels

• The Nature of God and the Problem of Evil
• The Darkness of Angelic Pride
• The Devil ‘Abode Not in Truth, Because the Truth Is Not in Him’
• The Devil Was a ‘Murderer from the Beginning’
• Differentiating Humans and Demons
• The Devil’s Plaything
• On Seeking Embodiment

3. Demonic Bodies

• Bodies of Air
• Demonic Penetration into the Soul
• The Imperceptible Bodies of Demons

4. Demonic Phenomena

• Demonic Activity and Its Limits
• The Meaning and Purpose of Demonic Wonders

5. The Devil and His Body

• Writing the History of Demons
• Totus Christus, Totus Diabolus
• Making Gods

6. Pagan Demonolatry

• The Continuous Immorality of Roman Pagans
• The Moral Instruction of the Gods
• The Demonolatry of Intellectuals
• Possession and Exorcism, Demons and Christ

 

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