Augustine
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Augustine

From Rhetor to Theologian

  1. 247 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Augustine

From Rhetor to Theologian

About this book

Augustine: From Rhetor to Theologian consists of fifteen chapters from international scholars written to celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the conversion to Catholic Christianity of Augustine of Hippo.

Augustine set his stamp on the Latin Church, yet only in the twentieth century, with its profound, even paradigmatic change did the descendants of that church -- Anglican, Reformed, and Roman Catholic -- recognize the degree to which their inbred attitudes and theological positions were "Augustinian." It is, however, another measure of the importance of Augustine that many aspects of his life and meanings of his writings are still disputed. This continuing investigation and debate is evidenced in this volume.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Contributors
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. Augustine, Symmachus, and Ambrose
  6. The Literary Unity of the Confessions
  7. From Literal Self-Sacrifice to Literary Self-Sacrifice: Augustine's Confessions and the Rhetoric of Testimony
  8. Augustine's Conversion and the Ninth Book of the Confessions
  9. "Homo Spiritualis" in the Confessions of St. Augustine
  10. Augustine's Confessions: Elements of Fiction
  11. Beyond Augustine's Conversion Scene
  12. Augustinian Platonism in Early Medieval Theology
  13. Pelagius Anticipated: Grace and Election in Augustine's Ad Simplicianum
  14. The Human and the Angelic Fall: Will and Moral Agency in Augustine's City of God
  15. Goodness as Order and Harmony in Augustine
  16. Christ and the Holy Spirit in Augustine's Theology of Baptism
  17. Augustine's Ecclesiology Revisited
  18. The Study of Augustine's Christology in the Twentieth Century
  19. Augustine in Translation: Achievements and Further Goals
  20. Index