For the Joy Set Before Us: Augustine & Self-Denying Love

Author/Contributor(s):	Schlabach, Gerald W
Publisher:	University of Notre Dame Press
Date:	04/01/2001
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Examining how Augustine reconciled self-love and self-denial in a unified Christian love, this book demonstrates the crucial role that continence played in Augustine's teaching, showing it to be more than an attitude toward sexuality; rather it is the operative mode of Augustininan caritas.