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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967262703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-55458-547-3

1-282-23267-3

9786613810410

0-88920-688-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 237 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

McWilliamJoanne <1928->

Disciplina

270.2/092

Soggetti

Christian literature, Early

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.