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Augustine: From Rhetor to Theologianconsists of fifteen chapters from international scholars written to celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the conversion to Catholic Christianity of Augustine of Hippo.
Augustine set his stamp on the Latin Church, yet only in the twentieth century, with its profound, even paradigmatic change did the descendants of that church -- Anglican, Reformed, and Roman Catholic -- recognize the degree to which their inbred attitudes and theological positions were "Augustinian." It is, however, another measure of the importance of Augustine that many aspects of his life and meanings of his writings are still disputed. This continuing investigation and debate is evidenced in this volume.
Introduction
Augustine, Symmachus, and Ambrose, by T. D. Barnes
The Literary Unity of the Confessions
From Literal Self-Sacrifice to Literary Self-Sacrifice: Augustine's Confessions and the Rhetoric of Testimony, by Jamie Scott
Augustine's Conversion and the Ninth Book of the Confessions, by Colin Starnes
"Homo Spiritualis" in the Confessions of St. Augustine, by Roland J. Teske
Augustine's Confessions: Elements of Fiction, by J.J. O'Meara
Beyond Augustine's Conversion Scene, by Leo Ferrari
Augustinian Platonism in Early Medieval Theology, by R.D. Crouse
Pelagius Anticipated: Grace and Election in Augustine's Ad Simplicianum, by James Wetzel
The Human and the Angelic Fall: Aill and Moral Agency in Augustine's City of God, by William S. Babcock
Goodness as Order and Harmony in Augustine, by Peter Slater
Christ and the Holy Spirit in Augustine's Theology of Baptism, by J. Patout Burns
Augustine's Ecclesiology Revisited, by Michael A. Fahey, S.J.
The Study of Augustine's Christology in the Twentieth Century, by Joanne McWilliam
Augustine in Translation: Achievements and Further Goals, by Thomas Halton
Index