Augustine : from rhetor to theologian / Joanne McWilliam, editor ; in collaboration with Timothy Barnes, Michael Fahey, and Peter Slater.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McWilliam, Joanne, 1928-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Congresses.

Augustine.

Christian literature, Early.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Augustine, Symmachus, and Ambrose; The Literary Unity of the Confessions; From Literal Self-Sacrifice to Literary Self-Sacrifice: Augustine's Confessions and the Rhetoric of Testimony; Augustine's Conversion and the Ninth Book of the Confessions; ""Homo Spiritualis"" in the Confessions of St. Augustine; Augustine's Confessions: Elements of Fiction; Beyond Augustine's Conversion Scene; Augustinian Platonism in Early Medieval Theology; Pelagius Anticipated: Grace and Election in Augustine's Ad Simplicianum

The Human and the Angelic Fall: Will and Moral Agency in Augustine's City of God; Goodness as Order and Harmony in Augustine; Christ and the Holy Spirit in Augustine's Theology of Baptism; Augustine's Ecclesiology Revisited; The Study of Augustine's Christology in the Twentieth Century; Augustine in Translation: Achievements and Further Goals; Index

Notes:

Selection of papers presented to a conference held at Trinity College, Toronto to celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the conversion of Augustine of Hippo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-55458-547-3

1-282-23267-3

9786613810410

0-88920-688-0

OCLC:

243567474