The Universal Way of Salvation in the Thought of Augustine

Thomas P. Harmon is Professor & Scanlan Foundation Chair in Theology, Directory of the MA in Evangelization & Culture and Associate Director of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.

Introduction

Part One: Setting up the Argument about the Universal Way of Salvation

Chapter One: Politics, Perception, and Religion from Republic to Empire

Chapter Two: Religious Universalism in the late Roman Empire and the Arguments of Porphyry of Tyre

Chapter Three: The Few, the Many, and the Universal Way of Salvation in Augustine’s Early Works

Part Two: Christ’s Mediation of the Universal Way of Salvation

Chapter Four: Human Wholeness and the Universal Way of Salvation in the City of God

Chapter Five: Plato on the Divisions Among Human Beings

Chapter Six: Augustine’s Engagement with Platonic Political Philosophy on Ignorance and Difficulty

Chapter Seven: Augustine’s Argument with Porphyry on the Universal Way of Salvation

Chapter Eight: Christ the Mediator of the Universal Way of Salvation

Chapter Nine: Charity, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Transpolitical City of God

Part Three: The Universal Way of Salvation and Augustine Himself

Chapter Ten: Human Wholeness in the Confessions

Chapter Eleven: Augustine’s Philosophic Ascent

Chapter Twelve: Salvation for the Philosopher and the Non-Philosopher: The Cases of Victorinus and Antony

Chapter Thirteen: Augustine’s Moral and Religious Conversion: Soul and Body, Few and Many

Conclusion

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