The Mystery of Continuity: Time and History, Memory and Eternity in the Thought of Saint Augustine

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. First edition. Large octavo in offwhite illus jacket; x, 177 pages; 24 cm; bibliographical notes. Prelims and edges lightly foxed; very light sparse pencil marks to some pages (easilty erased). Jacket housed in archival mylar. Tiny personal owner name to FEP. Hardcover. ISBN: 0813911117

Series: The Richard lectures for 1984-85, University of Virginia. Contents: Introduction: conversion and continuity -- The continuity of the self -- The continuity of history --The continuity of divine being -- Nature and grace in continuity and discontinuity -- The church as temporal and eternal -- The continuity of the communio santorum -- Sign, event, and sacrament -- Conclusion: continuity with Augustine. / Continuity -- History. Church -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600. Continuity of the church -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600. Continuité -- Histoire. Church -- History of doctrines -- Early church. Continuity. Geschichtsphilosophie Zeit Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Augustinus, Aurelius Heiliger 354-430 Augustinus, Aurelius. 30-600 CE