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Article: Cary, Philip. Inner Grace: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 2009
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CARY, Philip. Inner Grace: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 208 pp. Cloth, $55. Outward Signs: The Powerlessness of External Things in Augustine's Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 384 pp. Cloth, $74.--Inner Grace and Outward Signs are together the promised, "longer, more complicated, and more surprising" sequel to Cary's Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self (Oxford University Press, 2000) (Invention, p. 143). These three books are a penetrating, provocative, and sometimes perplexing study of Augustine's Christian Platonism, a study that ultimately questions the degree to which Platonism can be (and ...