A Companion to Augustine
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
1. Edition April 2012
638 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Augustine is widely recognized as an outstanding Christian theologian. In recent decades he has grown as an exceptional exponent of the culture of the late Roman world, one whose texts vividly bring the era to life. This original collection presents a new approach by scholars to contextualize Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right.
A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right.
* Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context
* Presents Augustine's life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place
* Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture
* State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
The Works of Augustine: Titles, Abbreviations, Editions, Translations
Table 1: English to Latin titles; Latin abbreviations
Table 2: Latin abbreviations; Latin to English titles; critical editions and English translations
Chronology of Augustine's Life
1 Introduction: Augustine and Company
Mark Vessey
PART I CONTEXTS
2 Political History: The Later Roman Empire
Christopher Kelly
3 Cultural Geography: Roman North Africa
William E. Klingshirn
4 Religious Sociology: Being Christian in the Time of Augustine
Éric Rebillard
PART II CONFESSIONS
5 Spes saeculi: Augustine's Worldly Ambition and Career
R. S. O. Tomlin
6 Love and Belonging, Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions
Kate Cooper
7 The Confessions as Autobiography
Paula Fredriksen
8 Reading the Confessions
Catherine Conybeare
PART III MEDIA
9 Augustine and Language
Philip Burton
10 Augustine's Information Circuits
Claire Sotinel
11 Augustine and Roman Public Spectacles
Richard Lim
12 Augustine and Books
Guy Stroumsa
PART IV TEXTS
13 Augustine and the Latin Classics
Danuta Shanzer
14 Augustine and the Philosophers
Sarah Byers
15 Augustine and the Books of the Manicheans
Johannes van Oort
16 Augustine and Scripture
Michael Cameron
17 Augustine and His Christian Predecessors
Mark Edwards
18 Augustine as a Reader of His Christian Contemporaries
Michael Stuart Williams
19 Augustine among the Writers of the Church
Mark Vessey
PART V PERFORMANCES
20 Philosopher: Augustine in Retirement
Gillian Clark
21 Conversationalist and Consultant: Augustine in Dialogue
Therese Fuhrer
22 Mystic and Monk: Augustine and the Spiritual Life
John Peter Kenney
23 Preacher: Augustine and His Congregation
Hildegund Müller
24 Administrator: Augustine in His Diocese
Neil B. McLynn
25 Controversialist: Augustine in Combat
Caroline Humfress
PART VI POSITIONS
26 Augustine on the Will
James Wetzel
27 Augustine on the Body
David G. Hunter
28 Augustine on Friendship and Orthodoxy
Stefan Rebenich
29 Augustine on the Church (Against the Donatists)
Alexander Evers
30 Augustine on the Statesman and the Two Cities
Robert Dodaro
31 Augustine on Scripture and the Trinity
Sabine MacCormack
32 Augustine on Redemption
Lewis Ayres
PART VII AFTERTIMES
33 Augustine's Works in Circulation
Clemens Weidmann
34 Augustine in the West, 430-ca.900
Conrad Leyser
35 Augustine in the Western Middle Ages to the Reformation
Eric L. Saak
36 Augustine in Modern Philosophy
Johannes Brachtendorf
37 Augustine and Postmodernism
John D. Caputo
38 Envoi
James J. O'Donnell
Bibliography
Index
