A Companion to AugustineMark Vessey A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right.
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Contents
Political History | 11 |
3 | 22 |
Cultural Geography | 24 |
Remains of the Roman city of Cuicul Djemila Algeria | 38 |
Religious Sociology | 40 |
Augustines Worldly Ambition and Career | 57 |
Love and Belonging Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions | 69 |
31 | 96 |
Augustine as a Reader of His Christian Contemporaries | 227 |
Augustine among the Writers of the Church | 240 |
Augustine in Retirement | 257 |
Augustine and the Spiritual Life | 284 |
Augustine in His Diocese | 310 |
Augustine in Combat | 323 |
Augustine on the Will | 339 |
Augustine on the Body | 353 |
Reading the Confessions | 99 |
38 | 104 |
Augustine and Language | 113 |
Augustines Information Circuits | 125 |
1 | 144 |
Augustine and Books | 151 |
Augustine and the Latin Classics | 161 |
1 | 166 |
Augustine and the Philosophers | 175 |
Augustine and the Books of the Manicheans | 188 |
1 | 194 |
Augustine and Scripture | 200 |
Augustine and His Christian Predecessors | 215 |
1 | 225 |
Augustine on Friendship and Orthodoxy | 365 |
Augustine on the Church Against the Donatists | 375 |
Augustine on the Statesman and the Two Cities | 386 |
Augustine on Scripture and the Trinity | 398 |
Augustine on Redemption | 416 |
Augustines Works in Circulation | 431 |
1 | 441 |
Augustine in the Latin West 430ca 900 | 450 |
Augustine in the Western Middle Ages to the Reformation | 465 |
Augustine and Postmodernism | 492 |
Envoi | 505 |
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