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Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae: texts and studies of early christian life and lan…
by Allen, Pauline, Oort, J. van, Neil, Bronwen, Ramelli, Ilaria L. E., Drecoll, Volker Henning, Boeft, J. den, Scully, Ellen, Nisula, Timo, Giulea, Andrei-Dragoș, Berghaus, Margitta, Lashier, Jackson, Steenberg, Irenaeus M. C., (Irenaeus Matthew Craig), Ehrman, B. D., Runia, D. T., Scholten, C.
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"....Timo Nisula analyses Augustine's own theological and philosophical concerns in his extensive writings about evil desire (concupiscentia, cupiditas, libido). Beginning with a terminlogical survey of the vocabulary of desire, the book demonstrates how the concept of evil desi…
The aim of this volume is to rescue lust 'from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue'.
Publisher's description: Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old…
Publisher's description: Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old…