Augustine and the Disciplines

From Cassiciacum to Confessions
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927485-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Augustine and the Disciplines takes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became the focus of medieval culture in the West. Augustine himself became increasingly aware that an ambivalent attitude towards knowledge and learning was inherent in Christianity. By facing the intellectual challenge posed by this tension he arrived at a new theory of how to interpret the Bible correctly. The topics investigated here include: Augustine's changing relationship with the 'disciplines', as he moved from an attempt at their Christianization (in the philosophical dialogues of Cassiciacum) to a radical reshaping of them within a Christian world-view (in the De Doctrina Christiana and Confessiones); the factors that prompted and facilitated his change of perspective; and the ways in which Augustine's evolving theory reflected contemporary trends in Christian pedagogy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pollmann, Karla

Vessey, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Mark Vessey: Introduction

- I. Honesta studia: classrooms without walls

- 2: Neil McLynn: Disciplines of discipleship in late antique education: Augustine and Gregory Nazianzen

- 3: Catherine Conybeare: The duty of a teacher: liminality and disciplina in Augustine's De Ordine

- II. Disciplinarum libri: the canon in question

- 4: Danuta R. Shanzer: Augustine's disciplines: silent diutius Musae Varronis?

- 5: William E. Klingshirn: Divination and the disciplines of knowledge according to Augustine

- 6: Philip Burton: The vocabulary of the liberal arts in Augustine's Confessions

- III. Doctrina Christiana: beyond the disciplines

- 7: Catherine M. Chin: The grammarian's spoils: De Doctrina Christiana and the contexts of literary education

- 8: Stefan Hessbruggen-Walter: Augustine's critique of dialectic: between Ambrose and the Arians

- 9: Karla Pollmann: Augustine's hermeneutics as a universal discipline?

Über Autor(innen)

Karla Pollmann is Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading.

Mark Vessey is Professor of English, University of British Columbia.