Augustine's Problem: Impotence and Grace

Nicoll, Jeff; Davis, Kortright (Forew.)

ISBN 10: 1498224962 / ISBN 13: 9781498224963

Edité par Resource Publications (An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers), Eugene, OR, 2016

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Presumed first edition w/NAP, hardcover, has a mild lean to the binding, moderate bumps to the lower cover corners with a touch of peeling to the paper, slighter bumps to the spine ends and upper corners, faint rubbing to the covers with a few very thin, very shallow scrapes to the back, a small smudge to the head of the text block, and a stray red mark to the rear paste down. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Augustine's Problem: Impotence and Grace
• Éditeur: Resource Publications (An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers), Eugene, OR
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1498224962
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781498224963
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Presumed First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biography
  • Religion
  • Sex/Sexuality

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Synopsis

Augustine's Problem provides a new approach to St. Augustine's life and doctrine, hypothesizing that his problem was not sexual addiction but sexual impotence. For Augustine, the problem with sex was not the seductive nature of women, but the unpredictability of desire, which can induce an unwanted erection or fail to provide one when even the mind would choose to have sex. He extends his personal incapacity to a general impotence of the will--we can never, without grace, choose any good. Just as the impotent man cannot work on his impotence, we cannot work on our salvation; only God can make a difference and predestines a tiny elect. The disobedience of the Garden is transferred to the disobedience of the male member, guaranteeing that the sin of Eden is transferred, in conception, as original sin. The most controversial elements of Augustine's theology are all linked to the theme of impotence, as expressed in his writings, from the Confessions to the anti-Pelagian works written at the end of his life.

À propos des auteurs

Jeff Nicoll received his doctorate in theoretical physics from MIT and has published papers in physics and cosmology. After the publication of his first book, Augustine's Problem: Impotence and Grace in 2016, he studied at the Howard University School of Divinity, receiving a MA in 2018; this provided the impetus for his second book, Strange and Gaudy Fruit: Toxic Theology.

Kortright Davis is Professor of Theology at Howard University School of Divinity and Rector Emeritus of the Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Washington DC. He has served the Church and Academia in several capacities, having been ordained into the Anglican priesthood since 1966. He has served as Lecturer and Acting Principal (Dean) of Codrington Theological College in Barbados. He was one of the founding executives of the Caribbean Conference of Churches (CCC), and was the principal coordinator of the Inaugural Assembly of the CCC in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973. He holds degrees from the Universities of London, Sussex, and the UWI, as well as honorary degrees from the General Theological Seminary, the Virginia Theological Seminary, and the University of the West Indies. He is a former member of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCICII), and the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. He is the author of several books, including the widely acclaimed Emancipation Still Comin', and Compassionate Love and Ebony Grace. His most recent book is entitled We Belong To Big Church. He and his wife Joan reside in Kensington, Maryland, USA.