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
Inhoudsopgave
List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Preface xviii
Source Acknowledgments xix
Abbreviations xxi
The Works of Augustine xxiv
Chronology of Augustine’s Life xl
1 Introduction 1
Mark Vessey
PART I Contexts 9
2 Political History: The Later Roman Empire 11
Christopher Kelly
3 Cultural Geography: Roman North Africa 24
William E. Klingshirn
4 Religious Sociology: Being Christian 40
Eric Rebillard
PART II Confessions 55
5 Spes Saeculi : Augustine’s Worldly Ambition and Career 57
R. S. O. Tomlin
6 Love and Belonging, Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions 69
Kate Cooper
7 The Confessions as Autobiography 87
Paula Fredriksen
8 Reading the Confessions 99
Catherine Conybeare
PART III Media 111
9 Augustine and Language 113
Philip Burton
10 Augustine’s Information Circuits 125
Claire Sotinel
11 Augustine and Roman Public Spectacles 138
Richard Lim
12 Augustine and Books 151
Guy G. Stroumsa
PART IV Texts 159
13 Augustine and the Latin Classics 161
Danuta Shanzer
14 Augustine and the Philosophers 175
Sarah Byers
15 Augustine and the Books of the Manicheans 188
Johannes van Oort
16 Augustine and Scripture 200
Michael Cameron
17 Augustine and His Christian Predecessors 215
Mark Edwards
18 Augustine as a Reader of His Christian Contemporaries 227
Michael Stuart Williams
19 Augustine among the Writers of the Church 240
Mark Vessey
PART V Performances 255
20 Philosopher: Augustine in Retirement 257
Gillian Clark
21 Conversationalist and Consultant: Augustine in Dialogue 270
Therese Fuhrer
22 Mystic and Monk: Augustine and the Spiritual Life 284
John Peter Kenney
23 Preacher: Augustine and His Congregation 297
Hildegund MEURuller
24 Administrator: Augustine in His Diocese 310
Neil B. Mc Lynn
25 Controversialist: Augustine in Combat 323
Caroline Humfress
PART VI Positions 337
26 Augustine on the Will 339
James Wetzel
27 Augustine on the Body 353
David G. Hunter
28 Augustine on Friendship and Orthodoxy 365
Stefan Rebenich
29 Augustine on the Church (Against the Donatists) 375
Alexander Evers
30 Augustine on the Statesman and the Two Cities 386
Robert Dodaro
31 Augustine on Scripture and the Trinity 398
Sabine Mac Cormack
32 Augustine on Redemption 416
Lewis Ayres
PART VII Aftertimes 429
33 Augustine’s Works in Circulation 431
Clemens Weidmann
34 Augustine in the Latin West, 430-ca. 900 450
Conrad Leyser
35 Augustine in the Western Middle Ages to the Reformation 465
Eric L. Saak
36 The Reception of Augustine in Modern Philosophy 478
Johannes Brachtendorf
37 Augustine and Postmodernism 492
John D. Caputo
38 Envoi 505
James J. O’Donnell
References 517
Index 563
Over de auteur
Mark Vessey is Professor of English and Principal of Green College at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts (2005), and has edited Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2005) and The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present (2011).
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