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Augustine and the Catechumenate / William Harmless, SJ ; foreward by Allan Fitzgerald, OSA.
Van Pelt Library BR195.C38 H37 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harmless, William, 1953-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Augustine.
- Catechumens--Algeria--Hippo (Extinct city)--History.
- Catechumens.
- History.
- Hippo (Extinct city)--Church history.
- Hippo (Extinct city).
- Algeria--Hippo (Extinct city).
- Genre:
- Church history.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 476 pages illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- As one of the most influential thinkers in Christian history, St. Augustine (354-430) had a flair for teaching and meditated deeply on the mysteries of the human heart. This study examines a little-known side of his career: his work as a teacher of candidates for baptism. In the revised edition of this seminal book-completed only weeks before the author's untimely death-both the text and notes have been revised to better reflect the state of contemporary scholarship on Augustine, liturgical studies, and the catechumenate, both ancient and modern. This edition also includes new findings from some of the recently discovered sermons of Augustine and incorporates new perspectives from recent research on early Christian biblical interpretation, debates on the Trinity, the evolution of the liturgy, and much more. This reconstruction of Augustine's catechumenate provides fresh perspectives on the day-to-day life of the early church and on the vibrancy and eloquence of Augustine the preacher and teacher. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Fourth-Century Catechumenate 35
- Third-Century Inheritances: North Africa 37
- The Catechumenate: Trends in the Greek East 57
- Lent: Trends in the Greek East 70
- Mystagogy: Trends in the Greek East 79
- Chapter 2 Augustine and the Catechumenate in Milan 88
- Augustine the Catechumen 91
- Augustine the Petitioner 109
- Augustine the Neophyte 117
- Lessons from the Threshold 125
- Chapter 3 Evangelization: Unrolling the Scroll 131
- The Candidate: Milieu, Motives, and Types 135
- The Catechesis: Principles 148
- 1 The Classical Background 149
- 2 The Narrative: Making the Case for Christianity 152
- 3 Exhortation and End Time 157
- The Catechist: Cultivating Delight 160
- The Catechesis: Examples 164
- The Message and the Messenger 175
- Chapter 4 Catechumenate: Breaking Open the Bread of the Word 181
- Feeding the Hungry: The Liturgy of the Word 186
- Noisy Improvisations: The Sermon and Its Hearers 190
- 1 Written Text and Oral Performance 191
- 2 Audience Response 195
- 3 The DiscipHna Arcani 197
- A Seasoned Rhetoric: The Method 200
- Scripture and Its Riddles: The Core Curriculum 208
- Conversi ad Dominum: The Dismissal 222
- Excursus: The Delay of Baptism? 225
- Chapter 5 Catechumenate: The Eagle and the Staircase 235
- Two Sessions: December 406 239
- Tractate on John 1 240
- Exposition of Psalm 121 246
- Melodic Themes 250
- 1 The Paradox of Christ 251
- 2 The Church as Body of Christ 256
- 3 Baptism and the Donatists 260
- 4 A Spirituality for Exiles 265
- Turning to the Catechumens 271
- Tractate 3 271
- Tractate 4 273
- Tractate 10 275
- Tractate 11 276
- Tractate 12 279
- Theater of the Word 280
- Chapter 6 Lent: Time in the Womb 291
- The Cross-Weave of Faith and Works 292
- Boot Camp: The Lenten Discipline 299
- Emancipation Proclamation: The Scrutiny 309
- A Pact among Pearl Merchants: The Creed 322
- Two Wings of Prayer: The Our Father 336
- Lent and the Midwife's Art 345
- Chapter 7 Mystagogy: Baking Bread, Fermenting Wine 352
- Lamps and Hearts Ablaze; The Rites of the Easter Vigil 354
- The Great Swap: Easter Morning 369
- Be What You See, Receive What You Are: The Eucharist 372
- Hunting Down Death: Easter Week 381
- Chirpings to Fledglings Leaving the Nest: The Octave 388
- Mystagogy Tuned to the Key of the End Time 395
- Chapter 8 Peroration 404
- The Spoken Word: Rhetoric 406
- Catechesis as a Performing Art 407
- The Well-Tempered Word 408
- The Art of Persuasion 412
- The Dark Side 416
- The Visible Word: Liturgy 418
- The Sermon as Catechesis 420
- The Pedagogy of Silence 421
- The Shape of Mystagogy 423
- Catechesis as Liturgical Theology 426
- The Written Word: The Scriptures 427
- The Bread of the Word 428
- Breaking Open the Bread of the Word 429
- The Musicality of the Word 432
- The Word-Made-Flesh: Christ 435
- The Melody of Christ 435
- Christ and Conversion 438.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-461) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814663141
- 0814663141
- OCLC:
- 881064554
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