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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review“This companion was first published in 2012 and has now been republished in paperback. Its scope and breadth is as impressive as the list of contributors … An essential tool for any philosopher’s library.” Exegetical Tools (October 2015)
“This is a successful Companionthat fills in certain lacunae in the study of Augustine and late antiquity. As such, it is more suited to scholars with specific interests than beginners looking for entry points into Augustine’s complex and sophisticated thought.” Religious Studies Review (December 2013)
“This inter- and intra-disciplinary companion to Augustine gathers and presents new flavours within Augustine research, which certainly leaves us yearning for more." Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses
Table of ContentsList 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 TheConfessions 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 M€uller
24 Administrator: Augustine in His Diocese 310
Neil B. McLynn
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 MacCormack
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
