Outward Signs: The Powerlessness of External Things in Augustine's Thought

by Phillip Cary

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This book is, along with Inner Grace (OUP 2008), a sequel to Phillip Cary's Augustine and the Invention of the Inner Self (OUP 2000). In this work, Cary argues that Augustine invented the expressionist type of semiotics widely taken for granted in modernity, where words are outward signs giving inadequate expression to what lies within the soul. Augustine uses this new semiotics to explain why the authority of external teaching, including Biblical...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195336496

ISBN13:9780195336498

Release Date:April 2008

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Religion Religion & Spirituality

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