Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Contexts, Legacy

by David G. Hunter; Jonathan P. Yates

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2021

Overview

An indispensable resource for those looking to understand Augustine’s place in religious and cultural heritage.

Augustine towers over Western life, literature, and culture—both sacred and secular. His ideas permeate conceptions of the self from birth to death and have cast a long shadow over subsequent Christian thought. But as much as tradition has sprung from Augustinian roots, so was Augustine a product of and interlocutor with traditions that preceded and ran contemporary to his life.

This extensive volume examines and evaluates Augustine as both a receiver and a source of tradition. The contributors—all distinguished Augustinian scholars influenced by J. Patout Burns and interested in furthering his intellectual legacy—survey Augustine’s life and writings in the context of North African tradition, philosophical and literary traditions of antiquity, the Greek patristic tradition, and the tradition of Augustine’s Latin contemporaries. These various pieces, when assembled, tell a comprehensive story of Augustine’s significance, both then and now.

Key Features

• Explores Augustine’s place in religious and cultural heritage
• Provides a comprehensive story of Augustine’s significance
• Examines and evaluates Augustine as both a receiver and a source of tradition

Contents

Part One: Augustine and the North African Tradition

• Augustine Reading Genesis in Confessiones 11–12: A Case Study in Hermeneutical Rhetoric
• Augustine and the North African/Western Liturgical Tradition: Liturgy and Reading Practices
• Augustine and Tertullian
• Augustine and the North African/Western Martyriological Tradition
• Augustine and Optatus of Milev

Part Two: Augustine and the Philosophical and Literary Tradition

• “As If a More Sublime Teaching”: Augustine and the Platonists
• Augustine and Porphyry
• Anatomy of a Memorial: Augustine and the End of Classical
• Augustine and the Classical Latin Literary Tradition

Part Three: Augustine and the Greek Patristic Tradition

• Augustine’s Reception of Origen
• Augustine and the Cappadocians: Augustine’s Anti-Pelagian Reception of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus

Part Four: Augustine and His Latin Contemporaries/Successors

• Augustine and Marius Victorinus
• “Ambrose, My Teacher!”: The Ambrosian Augustine
• Augustine and Ambrosiaster
• Augustine’s Enchiridion 26.100 and the Ninth-Century Predestination Debate

Product Details

• Title: Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Contexts, Legacy: Essays in Honor of J. Patout Burns
• Authors: David G. Hunter, Jonathan P. Yates
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 481
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
• ISBNs: 9780802876997, 0802876994
• Resource ID: LLS:GSTNTRDTNCNLGCY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:26:03Z