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In this book Aers explores various modes of displaying the mysterious relations between divine and human agency, together with different accounts of sin and its consequences. Theologies of grace and versions of Christian identity and community are its pervasive concerns. He examines the ways in which fourteenth century writers engaged with the thought of Augustine on these issues, exploring in detail ideas of sin, grace and salvation in William of Ockham, Thomas Bradwardine and Julian of Norwich with a thorough new reading of Langland's Piers Plowman forming the book's centrepiece.
