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This volume is the result of an international conference held at the University of Notre Dame in 1991 in which leading scholars, classicists, medievalists, theologians, philologists, rhetoricians, literary critics, and philosophers-gathered to focus on one of the most remarkable and influential books of late antiquity, Augustine's De doctrina christiana.
Contributors to this volume place the historical setting of De doctrina christiana within the context of contemporary scholarship and explore in detail its theological meaning and impact on western culture and Christian education. The essays cover the entire field of current Augustinian studies starting with the historic setting of late antiquity in which De doctrina christiana was written. They then examine the work itself, its literary structure and interpretive and theological significance, how it was received by later patristic writers, and how it has been used as an authoritative source in contemporary times. An extensive bibliography facilitates further study.
Contributors: Duane W. H. Arnold, Lewis Ayres, William S. Babcock, Pamela Bright, J. Patout Burns, John C. Cavadini, David Dawson, Charles Kannengiesser, Takeshi Kato, R. A Markus, Cyril O'Regan, Adolf Primmer, Christoph Schäublin, Kenneth B. Steinhauser, Leo Sweeney, Roland J. Teske, and Frederick Van Fleteren.
"De Doctrina Christiana of St. Augustine was perhaps the single most influential patristic work on biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. These sixteen studies were presented at a 1991 conference held at Notre Dame...This fine volume includes a fourteen-page bibliography and indices of biblical references, Augustine's works, and names." —Church History
Duane W.H. Arnold was the Episcopal Chaplain to Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan and the Principal of Saint Chad's College, The University of Durham, England. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Way, the Truth and the Life; Francis: A Call to Conversion; and Prayers of the Martyrs.
Dr. Pamela Bright was the Chair of the Theological Studies Department at Concordia University from 1995 until 2006 and a Professor of Historical Theology. Her undergraduate studies were in classics, history and theology at the University of Queensland, Australia. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, with an MA in 1983 and then a PhD in 1987.