Prayer after Augustine : a study in the development of the Latin tradition / Jonathan D. Teubner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teubner, Jonathan D., author.

Series:

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Augustine.

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

Prayer--Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Prayer.

Prayer--Christianity.

History.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Prayer--Christianity--Early church.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 257 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The influence of the theology and philosophy of Augustine of Hippo on subsequent Western thought and culture is undisputed. So wide and varied is this influence that theologians have rarely paused to consider what is meant by the pervasive term 'Augustinian tradition.' Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition argues that the notion of the 'Augustinian tradition' needs to be rethought; and that in the generation after Augustine, two distinct forms of Augustine's influence in the Latin West are already and richly manifest. In this work, Jonathan D. Teubner encourages philosophical, moral, and historical theologians to think about what it might mean that the Augustinian tradition formed in a distinctively Augustinian fashion. This Augustinian formation is exemplified by Augustine's reflections on prayer and how they were taken up, modified, and handed on by Boethius and Benedict, two critically influential figures for the development of Latin medieval philosophical and theological cultures. Teubner analyses and exemplifies the particular theme of prayer and the related themes of patience and hope, which for Augustine are articulated in prayer and sit at the center of Christian existence. These ramifications constitute a distinctively 'Augustinian' concept of tradition that proves to have fascinatingly diverse manifestations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I

A Theological Prelude 31

1 Learning to Pray 37

Soliloquia 1.1-6: Prayer as Desire for the beata vita 39

De moribus ecclesiae catholicae 1.31.66: Prayer as 'Conversation' with God 42

De magistro 1.2: Prayer and the interior homo 45

2 Prayer as Acceptance of Time 50

Ascents of the Soul from Cassiciacum to Rome 51

De vera religione: Christian Existence in Thagaste 55

Prayer and Christian Existence in De sermone Domini in monte 2 58

3 Prayer as Reception of the Other 66

Encountering the Problem: Mediation in Enarrationes in Psalmos 1-32 67

The Process of induere in Expositio Epistulae ad Galatas 69

Praying in Christ: totus Christus in Enarrationes in Psalmos 74

Totus Christus as 'Grammar' of Prayer in Psalm 85 78

Totus Christus as Suffering Community in Psalm 132 81

Christian Existence as sub specie orationis I 83

4 Prayer as the Hope of Wisdom 85

Ep. 130: Failing towards the beata vita 87

Deprecari and precari as Structuring Antithesis 93

Participation in De trinitate 4 97

Faith and Contemplation, scientia and sapientia in De trinitate 13 103

De anima et eias origine 4: In Defence of Ignorance 108

Prayer as a Practice of Inquiry I 110

Part II

A Historiographical Interlude 115

Hamack, Marrou, and the Italian Sixth Century 118

Transformation of the Western Empire 122

5 The Augustinianism 1 of the Opuscula sacra 127

Boethius, a Latin Christian 129

Prayer as 'Putting On' Christ's Desires in OSV 131

Prayer and Theological Failure in OSI 135

Conclusion 144

6 The Augustinianism 2 of The Consolation of Philosophy 145

Interpreting the Consolation 147

The Consolation as Dialogue 150

Prayer in Consolation 5 154

Prayer as a Practice of Inquiry II 159

Consolation as Augustinian 161

7 The Augustinianism 1 of the Rule of St Benedict 164

Interpreting the Rule 167

Augustinian Fraternal Relations 170

Pure Prayer in Community 180

Conclusion 184

8 The Augustinianism 2 of the Rule of St Benedict 186

Interpreting the Rule Redux 186

Benedict the Theologian: RB 3, 7, 71-2 189

Christian Existence as sub specie orationis II 198

Benedict, the Augustinian Theologian 201

Conversatio as Augustinian 206

An Ethical Postlude 209

Augustinian Christian Existence II 210

Locating Tradition 213

Between MacIntyre and Stout 215

The Scope and Function of Augustinianism 2 221

Tradition as Duty 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.

ISBN:

9780198767176

019876717X

OCLC:

991379527