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Augustinian Studies, 1988
This chapter investigates Augustine's role in addressing the Problem of Paganism. After the Sack of Rome in 410 CE, Augustine set out to produce his most ambitious work, a Christian rethinking, not just of the history of Rome, but of the relationship between God and the course of human history. Written in the safety of North Africa, the City of God (CG)
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This chapter investigates Augustine's role in addressing the Problem of Paganism. After the Sack of Rome in 410 CE, Augustine set out to produce his most ambitious work, a Christian rethinking, not just of the history of Rome, but of the relationship between God and the course of human history. Written in the safety of North Africa, the City of God (CG)
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“Shameless”: Augustine, After Augustine, and Way After Augustine
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2014The pejorative “shameless,” applied liberally to religious and intellectual antagonists until quite recently, now has a distinct period feel, and has frequently and casually been taken to justify diagnosing those who use it as “anxious.” The essay shows that the accusation of shamelessness has a precise and fairly stable sense from antiquity through ...
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2000
Augustine of Hippo (Thagaste, b. 354–Hippo, d. 430 ce) brings the very person of the thinker onto the philosophical scene for the first time in the history of philosophy, with his existential vicissitudes, his spiritual travails, and his incessant search for truth. Augustine is the ancient figure we know better than anyone else, thanks to the fact that
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Augustine of Hippo (Thagaste, b. 354–Hippo, d. 430 ce) brings the very person of the thinker onto the philosophical scene for the first time in the history of philosophy, with his existential vicissitudes, his spiritual travails, and his incessant search for truth. Augustine is the ancient figure we know better than anyone else, thanks to the fact that
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Augustinian Studies, 2009
Symmetry is an important item of our cultural heritage. In antiquity it meant harmonious relations between the dimensions of visual objects, or between some parts or patterns. From the Renaissance, it came to signify a relation of balance in their spatial distribution.1 Since the end of the eighteenth century symmetry has acquired the additional status
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Symmetry is an important item of our cultural heritage. In antiquity it meant harmonious relations between the dimensions of visual objects, or between some parts or patterns. From the Renaissance, it came to signify a relation of balance in their spatial distribution.1 Since the end of the eighteenth century symmetry has acquired the additional status
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Augustine's Laws: Norman Augustine
Defense & Security Analysis, 2005Some books which have fallen within Defense & Security Analysis's fields of interest have paved the way for further studies, either because they have opened up a new era for enquiry and research, or because they have introduced new approaches and methodologies to existing areas.
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"Augustine Asleep" Or "Augustine Awake"? Jacobus Arminius’s Reception Of Augustine
2009This chapter answers two questions. The first question is: What was the character of Arminius's most intensive discussion of Augustine's views, which is found in the Dissertatio de vero et genuino sensu capitis VII ad Romanos ? Why may Arminius have used Augustine as he did in this writing? The second question: Is it possible, on the basis of Arminius'
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Literature and Theology, 1989
Abstract Augustine’s understanding of language is derived from his understanding of signs, signa, itself based on his distinction between res and signum, ‘thing’ and sign, developed especially in De Doctrina Christiana, I. The way signs refer to things is mostly a matter of convention—wholly so in the case of words (which is what his ...
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Abstract Augustine’s understanding of language is derived from his understanding of signs, signa, itself based on his distinction between res and signum, ‘thing’ and sign, developed especially in De Doctrina Christiana, I. The way signs refer to things is mostly a matter of convention—wholly so in the case of words (which is what his ...
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2021
Abstract Augustine of Hippo, indisputably one of the most important figures for the study of memory, is credited with establishing memory as the inner source of selfhood and locus of the search for God. Yet those who study memory in Augustine have never before taken into account his preaching.
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Abstract Augustine of Hippo, indisputably one of the most important figures for the study of memory, is credited with establishing memory as the inner source of selfhood and locus of the search for God. Yet those who study memory in Augustine have never before taken into account his preaching.
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2001
[Extract] There is an enormous scholarly literature on Augustine’s account of free will, and it is remarkable for the range of views it contains. Historians of philosophy read Augustine on free will so variously that it is sometimes difficult to believe they are reading the same texts.
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[Extract] There is an enormous scholarly literature on Augustine’s account of free will, and it is remarkable for the range of views it contains. Historians of philosophy read Augustine on free will so variously that it is sometimes difficult to believe they are reading the same texts.
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