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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…mehr
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
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Autorenporträt
Mark Vessey is Professor of English and Principal of Green College at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts (2005), and has edited Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2005) and The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present (2011).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xii Preface xviii Source Acknowledgments xix Abbreviations xxi The Works of Augustine xxiv Chronology of Augustine's Life xl 1 Introduction 1 Mark Vessey PART I Contexts 9 2 Political History 11 Christopher Kelly 3 Cultural Geography 24 William E. Klingshirn 4 Religious Sociology 40 Éric Rebillard PART II Confessions 55 5 Spes Saeculi: Augustine's Worldly Ambition and Career 57 R. S. O. Tomlin 6 Love and Belonging, Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions 69 Kate Cooper 7 TheConfessions as Autobiography 87 Paula Fredriksen 8 Reading the Confessions 99 Catherine Conybeare PART III Media 111 9 Augustine and Language 113 Philip Burton 10 Augustine's Information Circuits 125 Claire Sotinel 11 Augustine and Roman Public Spectacles 138 Richard Lim 12 Augustine and Books 151 Guy G. Stroumsa PART IV Texts 159 13 Augustine and the Latin Classics 161 Danuta Shanzer 14 Augustine and the Philosophers 175 Sarah Byers 15 Augustine and the Books of the Manicheans 188 Johannes van Oort 16 Augustine and Scripture 200 Michael Cameron 17 Augustine and His Christian Predecessors 215 Mark Edwards 18 Augustine as a Reader of His Christian Contemporaries 227 Michael Stuart Williams 19 Augustine among the Writers of the Church 240 Mark Vessey PART V Performances 255 20 Philosopher: Augustine in Retirement 257 Gillian Clark 21 Conversationalist and Consultant: Augustine in Dialogue 270 Therese Fuhrer 22 Mystic and Monk: Augustine and the Spiritual Life 284 John Peter Kenney 23 Preacher: Augustine and His Congregation 297 Hildegund MEURuller 24 Administrator: Augustine in His Diocese 310 Neil B. McLynn 25 Controversialist: Augustine in Combat 323 Caroline Humfress PART VI Positions 337 26 Augustine on the Will 339 James Wetzel 27 Augustine on the Body 353 David G. Hunter 28 Augustine on Friendship and Orthodoxy 365 Stefan Rebenich 29 Augustine on the Church (Against the Donatists) 375 Alexander Evers 30 Augustine on the Statesman and the Two Cities 386 Robert Dodaro 31 Augustine on Scripture and the Trinity 398 Sabine MacCormack 32 Augustine on Redemption 416 Lewis Ayres PART VII Aftertimes 429 33 Augustine's Works in Circulation 431 Clemens Weidmann 34 Augustine in the Latin West, 430-ca. 900 450 Conrad Leyser 35 Augustine in the Western Middle Ages to the Reformation 465 Eric L. Saak 36 The Reception of Augustine in Modern Philosophy 478 Johannes Brachtendorf 37 Augustine and Postmodernism 492 John D. Caputo 38 Envoi 505 James J. O'Donnell References 517 Index 563 A Companion to Augustine
List of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xii Preface xviii Source Acknowledgments xix Abbreviations xxi The Works of Augustine xxiv Chronology of Augustine's Life xl 1 Introduction 1 Mark Vessey PART I Contexts 9 2 Political History 11 Christopher Kelly 3 Cultural Geography 24 William E. Klingshirn 4 Religious Sociology 40 Éric Rebillard PART II Confessions 55 5 Spes Saeculi: Augustine's Worldly Ambition and Career 57 R. S. O. Tomlin 6 Love and Belonging, Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions 69 Kate Cooper 7 TheConfessions as Autobiography 87 Paula Fredriksen 8 Reading the Confessions 99 Catherine Conybeare PART III Media 111 9 Augustine and Language 113 Philip Burton 10 Augustine's Information Circuits 125 Claire Sotinel 11 Augustine and Roman Public Spectacles 138 Richard Lim 12 Augustine and Books 151 Guy G. Stroumsa PART IV Texts 159 13 Augustine and the Latin Classics 161 Danuta Shanzer 14 Augustine and the Philosophers 175 Sarah Byers 15 Augustine and the Books of the Manicheans 188 Johannes van Oort 16 Augustine and Scripture 200 Michael Cameron 17 Augustine and His Christian Predecessors 215 Mark Edwards 18 Augustine as a Reader of His Christian Contemporaries 227 Michael Stuart Williams 19 Augustine among the Writers of the Church 240 Mark Vessey PART V Performances 255 20 Philosopher: Augustine in Retirement 257 Gillian Clark 21 Conversationalist and Consultant: Augustine in Dialogue 270 Therese Fuhrer 22 Mystic and Monk: Augustine and the Spiritual Life 284 John Peter Kenney 23 Preacher: Augustine and His Congregation 297 Hildegund MEURuller 24 Administrator: Augustine in His Diocese 310 Neil B. McLynn 25 Controversialist: Augustine in Combat 323 Caroline Humfress PART VI Positions 337 26 Augustine on the Will 339 James Wetzel 27 Augustine on the Body 353 David G. Hunter 28 Augustine on Friendship and Orthodoxy 365 Stefan Rebenich 29 Augustine on the Church (Against the Donatists) 375 Alexander Evers 30 Augustine on the Statesman and the Two Cities 386 Robert Dodaro 31 Augustine on Scripture and the Trinity 398 Sabine MacCormack 32 Augustine on Redemption 416 Lewis Ayres PART VII Aftertimes 429 33 Augustine's Works in Circulation 431 Clemens Weidmann 34 Augustine in the Latin West, 430-ca. 900 450 Conrad Leyser 35 Augustine in the Western Middle Ages to the Reformation 465 Eric L. Saak 36 The Reception of Augustine in Modern Philosophy 478 Johannes Brachtendorf 37 Augustine and Postmodernism 492 John D. Caputo 38 Envoi 505 James J. O'Donnell References 517 Index 563 A Companion to Augustine
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