Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Markus, R. A.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1924-2010</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">8:5</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1988</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>254tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>23 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>In this book Professor Markus's main concern is with those aspects of Augustine's thought which help to answer questions about the purpose of human society, and particularly with his reflections on history, society and the Church. He relates Augustine's ideas to their contemporary context and to older traditions, and shows which aspects of his thought he absorbed from his intellectual environment. Augustine appears from this study as a thinker who rejected the 'sacralization' of the established order of society, and the implications of this for a theology of history are explored in the last chapter.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">R. A. Markus</note> <subject> <topic>Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca 30-600</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">230.14092</classification> <classification authority="ddc">R628-M35</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0521368553</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11978/img-71251.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11978/img-71251.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071059.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>