Augustine and the disciplines : from Cassiciacum to Confessions / edited by Karla Pollman and Mark Vessey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollmann, Karla.

Vessey, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Augustine.

Bible--Theology.

Bible.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 p.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Augustine and the Disciplines takes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became the focus of medieval culture in the West. Augustine himself became increasingly aware that an ambivalent attitude towards knowledge and learning was inherent in Christianity. By facing the intellectual challenge posed by this tension he arrived at a new theory of how to interpret the Bible correctly.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Notes on contributors

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

PART I: Honesta studia: Classrooms without Walls

2. Disciplines of Discipleship in Late Antique Education: Augustine and Gregory Nazianzen

3. The Duty of a Teacher: Liminality and disciplina in Augustine's De Ordine

PART II: Disciplinarum libri: The Canon in Question

4. Augustine's Disciplines: Silent diutius Musae Varronis?

5. Divination and the Disciplines of Knowledge according to Augustine

6. The Vocabulary of the Liberal Arts in Augustine's Confessions

PART III: Doctrina christiana: Beyond the Disciplines

7. The Grammarian's Spoils: De Doctrina Christiana and the Contexts of Literary Education

8. Augustine's Critique of Dialectic: Between Ambrose and the Arians

9. Augustine's Hermeneutics as a Universal Discipline!?

Bibliography

Index locorum

1. BIBLICAL

2. OTHER

General index

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B

C

D

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I

J

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V

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-244) and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-153453-6

9786611345914

1-281-34591-1

OCLC:

437108728