A Companion To Augustine Mark Vessey Ed by Mark Vessey (ed) 9781118255483, 9781405159463, 1118255488, 1405159464 instant download after payment.

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

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–7): Mark Vessey
Chapter 2 Political History (pages 9–23): Christopher Kelly
Chapter 3 Cultural Geography (pages 24–39): William E. Klingshirn
Chapter 4 Religious Sociology (pages 40–53): Eric Rebillard
Chapter 5 Spes Saeculi (pages 55–68): R. S. O. Tomlin
Chapter 6 Love and Belonging, Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions (pages 69–86): Kate Cooper
Chapter 7 The Confessions as Autobiography (pages 87–98): Paula Fredriksen
Chapter 8 Reading the Confessions (pages 99–110): Catherine Conybeare
Chapter 9 Augustine and Language (pages 111–124): Philip Burton
Chapter 10 Augustine's Information Circuits (pages 125–137): Claire Sotinel
Chapter 11 Augustine and Roman Public Spectacles (pages 138–150): Richard Lim
Chapter 12 Augustine and Books (pages 151–157): Guy G. Stroumsa
Chapter 13 Augustine and the Latin Classics (pages 159–174): Danuta Shanzer
Chapter 14 Augustine and the Philosophers (pages 175–187): Sarah Byers
Chapter 15 Augustine and the Books of the Manicheans (pages 188–199): Johannes van Oort
Chapter 16 Augustine and Scripture (pages 200–214): Michael Cameron
Chapter 17 Augustine and His Christian Predecessors (pages 215–226): Mark Edwards
Chapter 18 Augustine as a Reader of His Christian Contemporaries (pages 227–239): Michael Stuart Williams
Chapter 19 Augustine among the Writers of the Church (pages 240–254): Mark Vessey
Chapter 20 Philosopher: Augustine in Retirement (pages 255–269): Gillian Clark
Chapter 21 Conversationalist and Consultant: Augustine in Dialogue (pages 270–283): Therese Fuhrer
Chapter 22 Mystic and Monk: Augustine and the Spiritual Life (pages 284–296): John Peter Kenney
Chapter 23 Preacher: Augustine and His Congregation (pages 297–309): Hildegund Muller
Chapter 24 Administrator: Augustine in His Diocese (pages 310–322): Neil B. McLynn
Chapter 25 Controversialist: Augustine in Combat (pages 323–335): Caroline Humfress
Chapter 26 Augustine on the Will (pages 337–352): James Wetzel
Chapter 27 Augustine on the Body (pages 353–364): David G. Hunter
Chapter 28 Augustine on Friendship and Orthodoxy (pages 365–374): Stefan Rebenich
Chapter 29 Augustine on the Church (Against the Donatists) (pages 375–385): Alexander Evers
Chapter 30 Augustine on the Statesman and the Two Cities (pages 386–397): Robert Dodaro
Chapter 31 Augustine on Scripture and the Trinity (pages 398–415): Sabine MacCormack
Chapter 32 Augustine on Redemption (pages 416–427): Lewis Ayres
Chapter 33 Augustine's Works in Circulation (pages 429–449): Clemens Weidmann
Chapter 34 Augustine in the Latin West, 430–ca. 900 (pages 450–464): Conrad Leyser
Chapter 35 Augustine in the Western Middle Ages to the Reformation (pages 465–477): Eric L. Saak
Chapter 36 The Reception of Augustine in Modern Philosophy (pages 478–491): Johannes Brachtendorf
Chapter 37 Augustine and Postmodernism (pages 492–504): John D. Caputo
Chapter 38 Envoi (pages 505–515): James J. O'Donnell