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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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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,
Douglas J. Herrmann, Roger Chaffin
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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,
Douglas J. Herrmann, Roger Chaffin
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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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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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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 Reception of Augustine
Sacris Erudiri, 2019[In] order to discover what the author was aiming at in writing this final correction of his own works. It turns out that the Retractationes can, not surprisingly, be linked to his other autobiographical works, the Soliloquia and the Confessions. In the Soliloquia, Augustine examines the difference between true and false in the way he pictures himself.
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Saint Augustine, and Augustine the Monk and Archbishop
Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1884(1884). Saint Augustine, and Augustine the Monk and Archbishop. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 295-296.
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Augustine of Hippo (St Augustine)
Abstract Augustine dealt with universal history in On the City of God against Pagans (De ciuitate Dei contra paganos) from 412 to 425, mainly in books XV–XVIII, by comparing his theological ideas on a history of salvation linked to divine Providence, based on the Bible, with the data of the Greco-Roman historiographical tradition on ...openaire +1 more source