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History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination

Mark Vessey, Karla Pollmann, & Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A., Editors

Table of Contents

    I. HISTORY
  • Neil B. McLynn Augustine's Roman Empire
  • G. J. P. O'Daly Thinking through History: Augustine's Method in the City of God and Its Ciceronian Dimension
  • Catherine Conybeare Terrarum Orbi Documentum: Augustine, Camillus, and Learning from History
  • Philippe Bruggisser City of the Outcast and City of the Elect: The Romulean Asylum in Augustine's City of God and Servius's Commentaries on Virgil
  • Paul C. Burns Augustine's Use of Sallust in the City of God: The Role of the Grammatical Tradition
  • David Lambert The Uses of Decay: History in Salvian's De gubernatione dei

    II. APOCALYPSE
  • Paul B. Harvey, Jr. Approaching the Apocalypse: Augustine, Tyconius, and John's Revelation
  • Harry O. Maier The End of the City and the City without End: The City of God as Revelation
  • Karla Pollmann Moulding the Present: Apocalyptic as Hermeneutics in City of God 21-22
  • Virginia Burrus An Immoderate Feast: Augustine Reads John's Apocalypse
  • Thomas A. Smith The Pleasure of Hell in City of God 21
  • J. Kevin Coyle Adapted Discourse: Heaven in Augustine's City of God and in His Contemporary Preaching
  • Kevin L. Hughes Augustine and the Adversary: Strategies of Synthesis in Early Medieval Exegesis

    III. THE SECULAR IMAGINATION
  • Gretchen E. Minton Civitas to Congregation: Augustine's Two Cities and John Bale's Image of Both Churches
  • Mark Vessey The Citie of God (1610) and the London Virginia Company
  • Peter J. Burnell Is the Augustinian Heaven Inhuman? The Arguments of Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt
  • Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott Hannah Arendt's Secular Augustinianism
  • Michael J. Hollerich John Milbank, Augustine, and the "Secular"
     
  • Index of Passages Cited from the City of God

"This book .... is a gem for scholars and would be excellent for a specialist course on The City of God or for post-graduates. The questions that it raises and the arguments put forth are provocative and interesting. They engage the reader even when one wants to dispute an argument." - Church History, Volume 70, Issue 2 (June 2001).

"Current interest in the City of God is well served by this volume. The essays feature a congruence in acumen and depth of erudition often lacking in collections of this sort." - Journal of Early Christian Studies, Volume 8, Issue 4 (December 2000).

"It is a tribute to the editors to have assembled a collection of interesting studies, some highly illuminating.... The studies in this collection range very widely, and are too varied to constitute a coherent whole. Several, however, make important contributions.... It is a rich, varied, and uneven collection." - Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1 (April 2001).

· ISBN 1-889680-04-4 · Published November 1999 · Hardbound · 340 pages · $38

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