The Mystery of Continuity; Time and History, Memory and Eternity in the Thought of Saint Augustine
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Extremely faint marginal pencil marks in to earlies sections, price sticker on front flap of dust jacket. Item #103
"PERHAPS NO QUESTION, EXCEPT THE PROBLEM OF GOD, SO OBSESSED AUGUSTINE AS THE ISSUE OF TIME, WITH ITS COROLLARIES OF ETERNITY, HISTORY AND MEMORY"
First book edition of the text of Pelikan's 1984-85 Richard Lectures at the University of Virginia, coupled with his 1986 Hale Lectures at the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. Published in 1986, on the 1600th anniversary of Augustine's conversion to Christianity. Pelikan explores Augustine's renunciation, through his embrace of the continuity of Christianity, of the discontinuity of the Manichees and as an affirmation of the eternal nature of the Church. With Dedication "For the centenary of the birth of Etienne Gilson (1884-1978), Richard Lecturer for 1937." With Abbreviations, Notes, and Bibliography.
Price: $50.00