Format:
xi, 245 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781441112705
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9781441146106
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
Holding divine intervention responsible for political and military success and failure has a long history in western thought. This book explores the idea of providential history as an organizing principle for understanding the divine purpose for humans in texts that may be literary, historical, philosophical, and theological. Providential History shows that, with Virgil and the Bible as authoritative precursors to late antique views on history, the two most important political thinkers of the late antique Christian world, Orosius and Augustine, produced the theories of Christian politics and
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Description based upon print version of record
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Primary Texts; Translations; Introduction; Authority; History and fiction; Chapter 1: Destined Lands and Chosen Fathers: Virgil, Livy, and the Bible; Hebrew Bible; The Roman tradition; Rome against Jerusalem in the first century of the Common Era; Chapter 2: Orosius Defends the Roman Empire; Fourth-century Roman Empire: Imperium and evangelium; Orosius; Orosius' universal geography; Orosius' universal history; Chapter 3: Augustine's Theology of History; Bible against Virgil's Aeneid; Augustine's geography
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Augustine's history as theologyChapter 4: Dante's Monarchia with and against Augustine; Context of Dante's political treatise; The argument; Pitting Augustine against Orosius and the Roman literary legacy; False and true allegories; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Dante's Commedia and the Ascent to Incarnational History; Canto 6 Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso: Political theme, Florence, Italy, and empire; Canto 7 Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso; Conclusion: The Hand of God; Notes; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Ancient, Patristic, and Medieval Primary Texts; Modern Texts; Index
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Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781628920604
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Divine Providence: A History
Language:
English
Keywords:
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