Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology

by David Aers

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In Salvation and Sin, David Aers continues his study of Christian theology in the later Middle Ages. Working at the nexus of theology and literature, he combines formidable theological learning with finely detailed and insightful close readings to explore a cluster of central issues in Christianity as addressed by Saint Augustine and by four fourteenth-century writers of exceptional power.

Salvation and Sin explores various modes of displaying the mysterious relations between divine and human agency, together with different accounts of sin and its consequences. Theologies of grace and versions of Christian identity and community are its pervasive concerns....

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  • ISBN10 0268020337
  • ISBN13 9780268020330
  • Publish Date 15 May 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Notre Dame Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 302
  • Language English