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Preacher of Grace

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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) became known as the ‘doctor of grace’. He developed his theory of divine grace mainly in his systematic treatises directed against the Pelagians (ca. 411-430). Did he h...
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  • 18 July 2014
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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) became known as the ‘doctor of grace’. He developed his theory of divine grace mainly in his systematic treatises directed against the Pelagians (ca. 411-430). Did he however also preach about this complex, and at first sight ‘demoralizing’, issue in his sermons to the people? In his previous book (BSCH 59), Anthony Dupont studied the profile of the treatment of gratia in the anti-Pelagian sermones ad populum. In a Preacher of Grace Dupont offers an account of the presence of the theme of grace in Augustine’s sermones not situated in the Pelagian controversy. He first studies sermons preached on important liturgical feasts, which belong to the (non-polemical) pastoral preaching genre. They are distributed throughout the 40 years of Augustine’s preaching activity, and are Christological in content and moralising in intention. Secondly, he examines sermons situated in the Donatist controversy, preceding the anti-Pelagian sermons chronologically and differing from them in terms of content. This research provides a global picture of the presence and treatment of gratia in Augustine’s sermones and clarifies the interaction between context, audience and preaching genre on the one hand, and the theme of grace as a whole on the other. It also contributes to the debate on (dis)continuity in Augustine’s thought on grace.
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Price: $208.00
Pages: 236
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Publication Date: 18 July 2014
ISBN: 9789004278639
Format: Hardcover
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Anthony Dupont, Ph.D (1979), Catholic University of Leuven, is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). His research and teaching are devoted to Late Antiquity in general, and Patristic preaching and Augustine’s doctrine of grace in particular. He was awarded the Research Council Award in Humanities and Social Sciences KU Leuven 2013 for his study of Augustine’s sermons.