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London / New York, Routledge 1991 viii + 247pp., 23cm., in the series "The arguments of the philosophers", previous owner's name on first page, softcover, VG, ISBN 0-415-06364-7
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5 book(s) with the same title
Letter Killeth. Redeeming Time in Augustine's Understanding of the Authority of Scripture
, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 217 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):English. ISBN 9782503601168.
Summary The experience of time is always momentous and stimulating to Augustine's theological reflection. This book asserts that even Augustine's concept of the authority of Scripture was embedded in his awareness of time. This ?awareness? was rooted in the tension between the ?already? and ?not yet? of the ?last days? that permeated the entire New Testament theological outlook. This does not mean that it is reflections on time that is the determining feature of a particular complex debate, or the origin of a particular work in Augustine's corpus. However, this work argues that ?time? is a factor which needs to be taken into greater account than scholarship heretofore has done. Accordingly, the author specifically delineates how Augustine's experience of time as a living, ongoing and creative tension critically determined his theological stances towards scriptural authority. The book shows how Augustine's awareness of this temporal tension was roused by the acceptance of his own temporality and creaturehood which brings to the fore the importance of the incarnate Christ. Exploring how Augustine and his contemporaries grappled with the existential implications of this tension in time, this work asserts that the authority of Scripture is not the authority of ?the Book? in the modern sense but is related to more complicated sources of authority that are linked to this specific notion of time. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Abbreviations Introduction Methodological considerations Outline of the work Chapter 1: ?Nisi Me Catholicae Ecclesiae Conmoueret Auctoritas? : Authority, Tradition and Time 1. Authority in common parlance today 2. Authority in antiquity 3. Tension of ?the time? in aureum saeculum and consummatio saeculi 4. Trado and the adaptation of auctoritas in the early church 5. After tempora christiana: Devolution of traditions and authority Concluding remarks Chapter 2: ?Si Quam Dubitationem Attulerit Latinorum Interpretum Infinita Uarietas? : Physical Evolution of the Scriptures and its Theological Implications 1. Vetus Latina - A brief sketch of Augustine's ?common edition? of the Scriptures 2. The Septuagint, Vetus Latina and Hebraica Veritas 3. The Vetus Latina and traditions of the church regarding the Septuagint 4. Emergence of the ?New Testament? and the notion of a ?Complete Canon? Concluding remarks Chapter 3: ?Our Hearts are Restless until they Rest in You? : The Longing for the Fullness of Time in the Confessiones 1. The ambivalence of authorities in Augustine 2. Augustine's tryst with the authority of Scripture 3. Discerning the Principle behind the authority of Scripture 4. Implications of Ambrose's Principle in Augustine's reading of the Scriptures Concluding remarks Chapter 4: ?Exercet Autem Hoc Tempore et Purgat? : Discerning the Signs of the Time in the De doctrina Christiana 1. Tyconius and the socio-political and religious context of the ?Donatist? Controversy 2. Discerning the underlying theological issue in the ?complex? Donatist Controversy 3. Engaging Tyconius's Liber Regularum in the De doctrina Christiana 4. Fitting Tyconius's Liber Regularum into Augustine's wider exegetical concerns Concluding remarks Chapter 5: ?Instead of doing what I had asked you, you thought up a new argument? : The Emergence of Paul in the Correspondence between Augustine and Jerome 1. The ?Great Prefaces? to the Correspondence 2. Jerome and the notions of authority in the Correspondence 3. Augustine and the notion of scriptural authority in the Correspondence 4. From signa to res in the ?new argument? 5. Humility, caritas and authority Concluding remarks Chapter 6: ?Ea ipsa est Simplex Fides, qua Credimus? : Retrieving Paul Through the book of Genesis 1. ?Paul? of the Manicheans 2. Augustine's early responses to the Manicheans 3. Retrieving Paul through the book of Genesis Concluding remarks Chapter 7: ?There we shall rest and see ?? : Beyond ?Time? and ?the Authority of Scripture? in the De civitate Dei 1. ?Rome? as an Ideological Construct 2. ?Eternal Rome? in the ?collective? and ?personal? memories: Reading Confessiones as a subversive literary device 3. Of heroes and martyrs, guardians and sanctuaries: Interrogating Rome via Milan 4. What is time? Discerning the Authority of Scripture in the De civitate Dei Concluding remarks Chapter 8: Not ?perfection? but ?progress towards the better? : Retractationes as the epitome of ?crede ut intellegas? 1. The indispensability of the Scriptures 2. The human aspects of the Scriptures 3. Retractationes as the epitome of crede ut intellegas - The theological basis and implications of ?progress towards the better? in Augustine's scriptural odyssey 4. Beyond time, beyond ?the Authority of Scripture? Conclusions Bibliography
Friendship as Ecclesial Binding. A Reading of St. Augustine?s Theology of Friendship from his In Iohannis Euangelium Tractatus
, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 201 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503599243.
Summary In the age of Augustine, within the classical structures of society, nothing was more valued than friends and friendship. Augustine was an innovative thinker and friendship represents a good example of his flair for reconfiguring its framework into an ecclesial setting. He wrote: 'what greater consolation do we have in this human society, riddled with errors and anxieties, than the unfeigned faith and mutual love of true and good friends?'. Yet, as a Christian Bishop, how would he reconceive this well established and treasured institution? Friendship was certainly something that became recast within the light of his conversion and immersion into the life of the Church. In Augustine's exchange with the Donatists, we glimpse his most fully developed vision of friendship. Through his preaching on John's gospel, which comes to us as his In Iohannis Euangelium Tractatus, Augustine reveals this vision of what friendship is. Given that John's gospel gives such weight to the incarnation and to friendship, we can witness through his hermeneutical strategy of figuration, his notion that friendship with God comes in belonging to the totus Christus, 'the whole Christ'. For Augustine, the universal nature of the Church as Christ's body and bride enjoys a continued connection to the head (Christ) and through the Church, its members live within the embrace of the Spirit. With this foundation of friendship, Augustine cried out to those separated by schism: belong?be bound?be friends with God in Christ. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations Referencing System Map Dates Introduction Part I Chapter 1 The Empire, Eagle and Africa: Donatism in the context of Church and State Chapter 2 The Ties that Bind: Augustine, Friends and Friendship Chapter 3 Quia Caritas Dei: Donatism, Friendship and the Unity of the Ecclesia Part II Chapter 4 Figuration and Friendship: Rhetoric as the Clavis of Christian Amicitia Chapter 5 The Amicus Sponsi and the Vision of Friendship Conclusion Bibliography Index
The Spirit, the World and the Trinity: Origen's and Augustine's Understanding of the Gospel of John
, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 276 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503589916.
Summary How come that ancient Christian authors elaborated a theology of the Holy Spirit? This innovative study tackles this question by analysing how the exegesis of the Gospel of John shaped the Trinitarian and soteriological agency of the Holy Spirit in the theologies of two of the most important Christian authors of all times: Origen and Augustine. Overall, it proposes a re-evaluation of some of the most debated doctrines of the two authors such as subordinationism in Origen and the understanding of Gods essence in Augustine, showing that the Johannine Father-Son-Spirit relation and the dichotomy between God and the world represent the foundation on which Origen and Augustine built their pneumatologies. The heuristic comparison proposed in this book is focused on the three large themes towards which Origen and Augustine represent opposite approaches: the understanding of the immanent Trinity, the dualism between God and the world, and the proper role of the Holy Spirit. On the one hand, Origen puts forward a paradigm of participation to explain the oneness and threeness of God, and of transformation to explain human participation in God. On the other, Augustine refers to God's self-relation through a paradigm of identity, and to salvation of humankind as an act of separation of the wicked world from the saved. These two trinitarian and soteriological constructions are shaped by a different understanding of the Gospel of John: while Origen's theology mostly smooths the gospel's dualism between God and the world by interpreting God's salvific act as a gradual spiritualisation of the world, Augustine tends to accentuate the Gospel's dichotomies by radicalising the Johannine dualism.
Augustine and the Humanists Reading the City of God from Petrarch to Poliziano
, LYSA Publishers , 2021 Hardcover with dusjacket 464 pages, illustr. Text English, 160 mm x 230 mm. ISBN 9789464447620.
Augustine and the Humanists investigates the reception of Augustine's De civitate Dei in Italian humanism during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In response to the urgent call for a more extensive and detailed investigation of the reception of Augustine's works and thought in the Western world, numerous scholars have addressed the topic over the last decades. However, one of Augustine's major works, De civitate Dei, has received remarkably little attention. In a series of case studies by renowned specialists of Italian humanism, this volume now analyzes the various strategies that were employed in reading and interpreting the City of God at the dawn of the modern age. Augustine and the Humanists focuses on the reception of the text in the work of sixteen early modern writers and thinkers who played a crucial role in the era between Petrarch and Poliziano. The present volume thus makes a significant and innovative contribution both to Augustinian studies and to our knowledge of early modern intellectual history.
Saint AUGUSTINE ENGLISH
Bruxelles, Mercatorfonds, 2007, Hardcover with dust jacket, 32.5 x 24.5 cm., 320pp., 250 colour illustrations.ENGLISH ISBN 9789061537335.
Augustine of Hippo was a multi-facetted character: intellectual and mystic, scholar and father of the Church, bishop of a prosperous harbour town and monk, philosopher and biblical thinker. Writings like The City of God and Confessions have formed part of world literature for centuries. Augustine was the first to talk extensively about himself, thus placing the human being at the heart of the story. Saint Augustine is also a man with a heart filled with passion. This iconographic tradition constitutes the guiding thread in the book, a detailed and superbly illustrated study devoted to the man and his thinking. Saint Augustine conveyed the ardour of his love not only in his Rules for Life, which was adopted by numerous religious orders, or in the originality of his many writings, which continue to be study minutely; but also through the force of his actions within the Church of North Africa. A universal spirit and conscientious thinker, he was also a remarkable bishop, who truly took care of his people in the original sense of the word episkopos. New book. (English)
