Augustine on memory / Kevin G. Grove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grove, Kevin G., author.

Series:

Oxford studies in historical theology.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in historical theology

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Memory.

Memory (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Augustine of Hippo, indisputably one of the most important figures for the study of memory, is credited with establishing memory as the inner source of selfhood and locus of the search for God. Yet, those who study memory in Augustine have never before taken into account his preaching. His sermons are the sources of memory's greatest development for Augustine. In Augustine's preaching, especially on the Psalms, the interior gives way to communal exterior. Both the self and search for God are re-established in shared identity and the communal labor of remembering and forgetting. Augustine on Memory presents this new paradigm not only for Augustinian studies, but also for theologians, philosophers, ethicists, and interdisciplinary scholars of memory.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Series

Augustine on Memory

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of the Works of Augustine

Introduction: "My Most Intimate Interior" or "Stuck in the Self"?

1. Preparing to Preach: Memory, Self, and Christ

2. Preaching from the Whole: The Self in Christ

3. Learning to Leap: Memory as Shared Exercise

4. The Work of Remembering

5. The Work of Forgetting

6. The Work of Memory: The Life of Grace

7. Transitus and Trinity

8. Psalm 50 in Augustine's Life and Death

Bibliography

Scripture Index

Index to Works of Augustine

Subject and Name Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-758724-0

0-19-758723-2

OCLC:

1255521728