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21. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Paul Rigby Augustine’s Use of Narrative Universals in the Debate Over Predestination
22. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Marianne Djuth Augustine on Necessity
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Hubertus R. Drobner The Chronology of St. Augustine’s Sermones ad populum
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Carol Harrison Augustine of Hippo’s Cassiciacum Confessions: Toward a Reassessment of the 390s
25. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Henrik Syse Augustinian “History” and the Road to Peace: Perspectives from Two Latter-Day Augustinians
26. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Michael Mendelson venter animi/distentio animi: Memory and Temporality in Augustine’s Confessions
27. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 1
Louis Swift Giving and Forgiving: Augustine on Eleemosyna and Misericordia
28. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 1
Paul C. Burns Augustine’s use of Varro’s Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum in his De Civitate Dei
29. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 1
Wayne J. Hankey Between and Beyond Augustine and Descartes: More than a Source of the Self
30. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 1
J. Patout Burns 2000 St. Augustine Lecture: The Eucharist as the Foundation of Christian Unity in North African Theology
31. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 1
Frederick Van Fleteren Augustine’s Evolving Exegesis of Romans 7: 22-23 in its Pauline Context
32. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 1
Gertrude Gillette Augustine and the significance of Perpetua’s words: “And I was a man.”
33. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 2
Mark Vessey Foreword
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Peter Brown Introducing Robert Markus
35. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 2
R. A. Markus Evolving Disciplinary Contexts for the Study of Augustine, 1950–2000: Some Personal Reflections
36. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 2
James J. O’Donnell The Strangeness of Augustine
37. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 2
David Peddle Re-Sourcing Charles Taylor’s Augustine
38. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 2
Thomas F. Martin Paul the Patient: Christus Medicus and the “Stimulus Carnis” (2 Cor. 12:7): A Consideration of Augustine’s Medicinal Christology
39. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
Adam Ployd Non poena sed causa: Augustine’s Anti-Donatist Rhetoric of Martyrdom
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This article examines Augustine’s anti-Donatist claim that it is not the punishment but the cause (non poena sed causa) that makes a martyr. Augustine’s non poena sed causa argument arises as part of the larger rhetoric of martyrdom that recent scholarship has highlighted in late antiquity. I argue here that a more specific look at classical rhetorical techniques can provide a better understanding of what Augustine is up to in his particular rhetoric of martyrdom. To that end, after providing an overview of North African martyr discourse, I turn to forensic rhetoric and issue theory as described in Cicero and Quintilian. I show that two types of forensic arguments—one on the issue of definition and other on the contested interpretation of a legal text—shaped Augustine’s non poena sed causa approach to the Donatists’ claims to be the church of the martyrs.
40. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
Justin Shaun Coyle Taking Laughter Seriously in Augustine’s Confessions
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This essay analyzes the subtle theology of laughter that is scattered across Augustine’s Confessiones (conf.). First, I draw on Sarah Byers’s work in order to argue that Augustine adopts and adapts Stoic moral psychology as a means of sorting the laugh into two moral kinds—as evidence of either good joy or bad joy. In turn, these two kinds provide the loose structure for the double theological taxonomy of merciless and merciful laughter that conf. develops. Next, I treat laughter of each sort via exegesis of several textual vignettes. Close readings of key passages show that both merciless and merciful laughter evince distinctive features across Augustine’s conf. This also reveals exactly how Augustine embeds laughter’s double taxonomy in order to confect his own salvation narrative. Thus, on the reading offered here, laughter proves central to the salvation history that Augustine’s conf. weaves. We learn a good deal about Augustine’s story and his theology by attending to the subject, object, and character of laughter that may be found in his conf.