Putting on Christ: Augustine’s Early Theology of Salvation and the Sacraments
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Overview
Putting on Christ aims to situate Augustine’s early soteriology and sacramental theology within the context of his personal history and intellectual development. Beginning with an extended analysis of the theology of salvation and sacramental efficacy contained within Augustine’s Confessions (ca. 400), the study then traces the maturation of his views on these matters, beginning with his earliest extant works, the Cassicacum dialogues (ca. 386). The journey entails treating Augustine’s earliest discussions of Christ’s person and his saving work, as well as the believer’s subjective experience of conversion and salvation. As Augustine’s corpus shifts from philosophical dialogues to explicitly apologetic and scriptural-exegetical works, so too does his soteriological lexicon expand to include concepts and terms that will later become his stock-in-trade, such as the virtue of humilitas. And as his roles in the North African Church come to include participation in the presbyterate and the episcopacy, so too does his engagement expand to a wider set of polemical contexts, both anti-Manichaean and anti-Donatist.
Putting on Christ tracks these and many other aspects of Augustine’s maturing thought, showing where lines of both continuity and development lie and aiming to uncover their reasons. In doing so, it reveals Augustine to be a thinker and a teacher who continued to hone his understanding of salvation, the very heartbeat of Christian life and thought, as well as its relation to various other aspects of the Christian theological worldview, from Christology and anthropology to sacramental theology and ecclesiology.
- Aims to situate Augustine’s early theology within the context of his personal history and intellectual development
- Discusses Augustine’s earliest discussions of Christ’s person and his saving work
- Reveals Augustine to be a thinker and a teacher who continued to hone his understanding of salvation
English speaking scholarship has very little that is extended and good on what humilitas means for Augustine’s theology, and Monroe does a good job of showing its importance in a key period.
Lewis O. Ayres, Durham University
Ty Monroe’s careful study of Augustine’s early writings, particularly the first thirty-two commentaries on Psalms, Confessions and On Baptism discovers linked changes in his understanding of the mediation of salvation through the incarnation and death of Jesus, as well as the permanent effects of sacramental rituals. His results open new avenues for research into Augustine’s theological development.
J. Patout Burns, Jr., University of Notre Dame
Reading this richly documented book offers us a chance to journey with Augustine as he develops in the understanding and practice of the sacramental life of his community—thus leaving for all time a sense of how to be part of the salvation offered by Christ’s own experience and practice of humility. Monroe thus offers us a thoughtful appreciation of the challenges Augustine faced in trying to bring peace to a divided world by Putting on Christ.
Allan Fitzgerald, OSA, Villanova Universit
- Title: Putting on Christ: Augustine’s Early Theology of Salvation and the Sacraments
- Author: Ty Paul Monroe
- Publisher: Catholic University of America
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 319
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones; Salvation › Christianity; Sacraments
- ISBNs: 9780813235486, 9780813235493, 0813235480, 0813235499
- Resource ID: LLS:PTTNGCHRSCRMNTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
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