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Ausgabe:

Mai/2018

Spalte:

502–505

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

McInerney, Joseph J.

Titel/Untertitel:

The Greatness of Humility. St Augustine on Moral Excellence.

Verlag:

Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. (Lutterworth) 2017. XVII, 197 S. Kart. £ 16,50. ISBN 978-0-227-17600-9.

Rezensent:

Thomas J. Savage

In Joseph J. McInerney’s monograph, The Greatness of Humility, St Augustine on Moral Excellence (2017), he explores a topic that is much in the literature and perhaps more in current debate across disciplines. Humility has a long and tattered history. C. C. Pecknold asserts that the Romans could not admire humility due to its af-finity to weakness contrasted with pride’s strength. Much later, philosophers such as Hume and Nietzsche would reject humility, arguing it as »monkish« and correlated with moral subjugation. With strident opposition, McI.’s work to amicably conjoin humi-lity and human greatness seems a difficult task.
For McI., the Augustinian corpus holds the key to this task whereby Jesus is the exemplar, whose humiliating death brings about a glorious ...


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