| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
revising aclassical ideal |
| Author: |
KolbetPaul R, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Notre Dame, Ind. |
| Published: |
University of Notre Dame Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 342 p.). |
| Series: |
Christianity and Judaism in antiquity series |
| Personal Subject: |
Augustine - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780268084578/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780268084578electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0268084572electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780268033217pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0268033218pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction -- Rhetoric and Christian identity in the Roman Empire : sources and method -- Aclassical ideal -- Classical therapy : its origins, tasks, and methods -- Psychagogy as a cultural ideal -- Psychagogy in its classical form -- Hellenistic refinements -- Cures for the Roman soul -- The psychagogic value of ancient texts -- Revising and recontextualizing classical therapy -- Augustine's early formation -- An ambitious young orator -- Being healed by beautiful words -- Christianizing classical therapy -- Christian philosophy and the cure of soul -- Christ's inner and outer rhetoric -- A new context for classical therapy -- Ordination crisis -- Controversies over the cure of soul -- Signs eliciting love -- Exegetical integration -- Teaching the uninstructed -- Augustine's homiletical practice -- The Christian rhetor -- Continuity amid discontinuity -- Critical skills -- Constructive guidance -- Therapy and society -- The incarnate word and community |