Pub Date : 2021-02-06DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES20212562
Alexander H. Pierce
The Ancient Readers of Augustine’s City of God Mattias Gassman 1 From emergency practice to Christian polemics? Augustine’s invocation of infant baptism in the Pelagian Controversy Alexander H. Pierce 19 Unwrapping the Spectacle: Social Critique, Sectarian Polemics, and Communal Transfiguration in Augustine’s Enarratio in Psalmum 147 Douglas Finn 43 Metaphoric Speculation: Rereading Book 15 of Augustine’s De Trinitate Emeline McClellan 71
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES20212461
Mattias Gassman
Recent scholarship has held that De ciuitate Dei was aimed primarily at Christians. Through a comprehensive study of Augustine’s correspondence with known readers of De ciuitate Dei, this article argues that he in fact intended it for practical outreach. Beginning with the exchange with Volusianus and Marcellinus, it argues that the “circle of Volusianus” was not comprised of self-confident pagans but of a dynamic group of locals and émigrés, pagan and Christian, who had briefly coalesced around Volusianus and Marcellinus. The Carthaginian social situation did not greatly change, therefore, after Marcellinus’s execution and Volusianus’s departure. Neither did Augustine’s aims, of which the same picture emerges from Augustine’s later correspondence with Macedonius, Evodius, Peter and Abraham, Firmus, and Darius, and from Orosius. Augustine intended, from the first inception of De ciuitate Dei to the eve of his death, to use it to equip Christians with arguments and, through those Christians’ efforts in turn, to convince once-reluctant pagans to embrace the truth of its claims.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152171
Brian Dunkle
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152173
Joshua R. Farris
{"title":"Original Sin and the Fall: Five Views","authors":"Joshua R. Farris","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152173","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"126-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71205198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152172
Andrew C. Chronister
{"title":"The Pelagian Controversy: An Introduction to the Enemies of Grace and the Conspiracy of Lost Souls.","authors":"Andrew C. Chronister","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152172","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"122-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71205186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152168
R. Edwards
{"title":"Chrysostom’s Devil: Demons, the Will, and Virtue in Patristic Soteriology","authors":"R. Edwards","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152168","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"105-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71205106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152174
Thomas R. Clemmons
{"title":"Desires in Paradise: An Interpretative Study of Augustine’s City of God 14","authors":"Thomas R. Clemmons","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152174","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"130-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71205210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152165
A. Geljon
{"title":"Creation and Literary Re-Creation. Ambrose’s Use of Philo in the Hexaemeral Letters","authors":"A. Geljon","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152165","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"93-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71204997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152167
Stephen E. Potthoff
{"title":"The Church in the Latin Fathers: Unity in Charity","authors":"Stephen E. Potthoff","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152167","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"100-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71205062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152166
Sean Hannan
{"title":"On Creation, Science, Disenchantment, and the Contours of Being and Knowing","authors":"Sean Hannan","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152166","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"97-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71205049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}