Pub Date : 2020-08-14DOI: 10.5840/augstudies202081359
M. Miles
In St. Augustine’s society, men’s tears were not considered a sign of weakness, but an expression of strong feeling. Tears might be occasional, prompted by incidents such as those Augustine described in the first books of his Confessiones. Or they might accompany a deep crisis, such as his experience of conversion. Possidius, Augustine’s contemporary biographer, reported that on his deathbed Augustine wept copiously and continuously. This essay endeavors to understand those tears, finding, primarily but not exclusively in Augustine’s later writings, descriptions of his practice of meditation suggesting that a profound and complex range of emotions from fear and repentance to gratitude, love, rest in beauty, and delight in praise richly informed Augustine’s last tears.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-14DOI: 10.5840/augstudies202081360
Han-luen Kantzer Komline
This paper explores changing attitudes toward novelty in early Christianity by focusing on a case study: Augustine of Hippo. It demonstrates that Augustine develops an unapologetically Christian version of the argument from antiquity, unapologetically Christian in that he redefines the very meaning of antiquity in terms of proximity to Christ and in that he relocates the argument from antiquity from the realm of apologetics, where it had become a stock weapon in the arsenal of his predecessors, to the realm of intramural Christian debate. In the process, Augustine relativized temporal measures of “novelty” and “antiquity” and recalibrated the meaning of these terms theologically, with reference to Christ.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.5840/augstudies202081158
A. Knight
This article argues that Augustine’s understanding of the internal dynamics of number, order, and weight as they pertain to corporeal creatures supplies the basis for an analogy which characterizes the process of the soul’s reformation. In other words, Augustine understands the soul’s simplicity in an analogous manner to the simplicity of corporeal creatures, and the simplicity of corporeal creatures is determined by the relations between number, order, and weight. This analogy shows that Augustine conceives of the soul as a composite entity with different loves as its constituent parts. In the process of reformation, the soul acquires an ordered disposition as those loves become more like one another. By virtue of this ordered disposition, the soul also acquires a greater degree of integration or number because the likeness of weight among its constituent parts allows the soul to move as a unity toward God as its final end.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5840/augstudies20205113
Jérôme Lagouanère
{"title":"Jaime García Álvarez, OSA, Une seule âme et un seul cœur en Dieu. Vivre en communauté à la lumière de saint Augustin","authors":"Jérôme Lagouanère","doi":"10.5840/augstudies20205113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies20205113","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"107-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46151923","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 : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5840/augstudies20205111
Paul M. Blowers
{"title":"Craig Allert, Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation","authors":"Paul M. Blowers","doi":"10.5840/augstudies20205111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies20205111","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"101-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41683421","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 : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5840/augstudies20205115
Andrew C. Chronister
{"title":"Ali Bonner, The Myth of Pelagianism","authors":"Andrew C. Chronister","doi":"10.5840/augstudies20205115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies20205115","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"115-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46654140","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 : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5840/augstudies20205116
D. Hollinger
{"title":"Elizabeth A. Clark, The Fathers Refounded: Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, and the Teaching of Ancient Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America","authors":"D. Hollinger","doi":"10.5840/augstudies20205116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies20205116","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"120-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42971148","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 : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5840/augstudies20205118
T. Mcnulty
{"title":"Douglas Finn, Life in the Spirit: Trinitarian Grammar and Pneumatic Community in Hegel and Augustine","authors":"T. Mcnulty","doi":"10.5840/augstudies20205118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies20205118","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"129-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41648647","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 : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5840/augstudies202051110
Collin Garbarino
{"title":"Stefana Dan Laing, Retrieving History: Memory and Identity Formation in the Early Church","authors":"Collin Garbarino","doi":"10.5840/augstudies202051110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies202051110","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"141-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41911664","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}
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