Augustine and his critics : essays in honour of Gerald Bonner / edited by Robert Dodaro and George Lawless.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonner, Gerald.

Dodaro, Robert, 1955-

Lawless, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Augustine.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

The contributors examine the major topics of Augustine's thought, including evil, free will, asceticism and sexuality, as well as the Augustinian program as broadly defined.

Contents:

1 Gerald Bonner: an appreciation / Daniel W. Hardy 5

2 Gerald Bonner: a select bibliography / Daniel W. Hardy 11

3 Studying Augustine: an overview of recent research / Hubertus R. Drobner 18

Part I If Plato were alive 35

4 Paucis mutatis verbis: St Augustine's Platonism / Robert Crouse 37

5 The fundamental grammar of Augustine's trinitarian theology / Lewis Ayres 51

6 Sacred triads: Augustine and the Indo-European soul / John Milbank 77

Part II The order of love 103

7 Insubstantial evil / Rowan Williams 105

8 Snares of truth: Augustine on free will and predestination / James Wetzel 124

9 Augustine's decentring of asceticism / George Lawless 142

10 Christ, God and woman in the thought of St Augustine / E. Ann Matter 164

11 A critical evaluation of critiques of Augustine's view of sexuality / Mathijs Lamberigts 176

Part III We are the times 199

12 'Tempora christiana' revisited / Robert A. Markus 201

13 The rhetoric of scripture and preaching: classical decadence or Christian aesthetic? / Carol Harrison 214

14 Augustine's secular city / Robert Dodaro 231.

Notes:

"Gerald Bonner: a select bibliography":pages 11-17.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415200628

OCLC:

41482287