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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812767403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-153453-6

9786611345914

1-281-34591-1

Descrizione fisica

xi, 258 p

Altri autori (Persone)

PollmannKarla

VesseyMark

Disciplina

230.041

Soggetti

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

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.