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81. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 52 > Issue: 2
Zac Settle Labor in a Life of Liturgy: De Opere Monachorum and the Potential of Monastic Labor
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This essay theorizes the interplay between Augustine’s vision of prayer and his theological treatment of labor. In so doing, it articulates some of the broader economic implications of Augustine’s theological system. More particularly, this essay theorizes the conceptual slippage between a prayerful life of Christian existence aimed at the beatific vision and labor properly related to, directed, undertaken, and contextualized. I argue that under the right conditions—conditions similar to those Augustine recognizes in a monastic context, and dissimilar to those fostered in contemporary capitalism—labor can become a modality of prayer. When labor is undertaken in this manner—which is made possible by God’s efficacious grace and the transformative power of the virtues—it is possible for the boundaries between labor and prayer to blur, such that the whole of one’s labor is grafted into one’s larger life of prayer before God. That mode of labor and prayer depends on forms of time, relationality, and selfhood that contrast sharply with typical features of labor undertaken in contemporary capitalism, all of which will be briefly canvased in conclusion.
82. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 53 > Issue: 1
Carl L. Beckwith Augustine’s Use of Ps.-Athanasius on John 5:19 and the Chronology of De Consensu Euangelistarum
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Augustine uses an unusual scriptural variant for the ending of John 5:19 twelve times. Ten occur in several Trinitarian writings produced around 418–420 CE. There is sufficient evidence to argue that Augustine’s use of Jerome’s translation of Didymus the Blind’s De spiritu sancto accounts for the presence of the variant in these writings. Augustine’s two earlier uses are more difficult to explain. The variant appears once in a sermon delivered at the end of 411 CE and once in De consensu euangelistarum, Book One, which is generally dated to 403–404 CE. The following article argues that Augustine’s use of ps.-Athanasius’s De trinitate, Book XI likely accounts for these two early uses.
83. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 53 > Issue: 1
Philip Lindia The Fear of God as Pedagogy: Augustine’s Theological Framework for Eschatological Cataplexis as a Catechetical Tool
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This article demonstrates the intersection of Augustine’s pedagogy and theology through a case study of his threats of divine judgment (eschatological cataplexis) in catechesis. Augustine’s use of this rhetorical device resists recent scholarship that has sought to ameliorate Augustine’s vision of hell. Augustine’s cataplexis in the catechumenate elucidates the practical side of his mature theological reflections on hellfire and eternal damnation: why catechists should utilize fear as an act of love, how fear cannot cause salvation in and of itself, and how in the faithful, general fear is refined to shed servile fear, that avoids the bad, in favor of chaste fear, that seeks the good. Augustine’s view of love and teaching prove to be intimately intertwined with his vision of fear and an eternal hell.
84. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 53 > Issue: 1
Veronica Roberts Ogle Healing Hope: A Response to Peter Iver Kaufman
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This is the second of two responses to Peter Kaufman’s article “Hopefully, Augustine.” Veronica Roberts Ogle, author of Politics and the Earthly City in Augustine’s City of God, probes the degree to which her articulation of Augustinian political activity—and any hopes that might accompany it—overlaps or contrasts with Kaufman’s more minimalist conception.
85. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 53 > Issue: 1
Michael Lamb Augustine on Hope and Politics: A Response to Peter Iver Kaufman
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This is the first of two responses to Peter Iver Kaufman’s article, “Hopefully, Augustine.” Michael Lamb, author of A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought, analyzes the conceptual and interpretive assumptions related to hope and politics implicit in Kaufman’s account. Lamb defends an account of hope as a virtue that allows properly ordered hope for political goods and considers the implications of a more expansive view of politics for understanding Augustine’s thought.
86. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 53 > Issue: 1
Peter Iver Kaufman Hopefully, Augustine
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When Augustine wrote about having discovered a hope (diuersa spes) different from the political ambitions that drew him to Rome then Milan (spes saeculi), he referred to Christians’ hopes for celestial reward. But several colleagues suggest that he also harbored hopes for a kinder political culture. Discussions of Augustine’s hopes have enlivened the study of political theory and political theology for several generations. During the twenty-first century two influential volumes took him as their inspiration for “hopeful citizenship” and “democratic citizenship.” Recently, two perceptive studies propose variations on the themes introduced there. What follows deploys several of Hannah Arendt’s observations about Augustine to suggest that his political hopes were somewhat more restricted but more radical than the latest contributions to his political theology suggest.
87. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Louis G. Kelly Saint Augustine and Saussurean Linguistics
88. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Vernon J. Bourke Augustine and the Roots of Moral Values
89. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Wilma Gundersdorf von Jess Divine Eternity in the Doctrine of St. Augustine
90. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Peter S. Hawkins Polemical Counterpoint in “De Civitate Dei”
91. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Mary J. Sirridge St. Augustine and “The Deputy Theory”
92. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Penelope D. Johnson Virtus: Transition from Classical Latin to the “De Civitate Dei”
93. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Maurice Léveillé Don de l’esprit et baptême
94. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Ralph Flores Reading and Speech in St. Augustine’s Confessions
95. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Eugene TeSelle ‘Regio Dissimilitudinis’ in the Christian Tradition and its Context in Late Greek Philosophy
96. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Bruce Stephen Bubacz Augustine’s Account of Factual Memory
97. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Leo C. Ferrari Monica on the Wooden Ruler (Conf. 3.11.19)
98. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 6
Colin Starnes Saint Augustine on Infancy and Childhood: Commentary on the First Book of Augustine’s Confessions
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Maurice Léveillé Don de l’esprit et baptême: Réflexions en marge d’une prédication augustinienne
100. Augustinian Studies: Volume > 7
Leo C. Ferrari ‘Christus Via’ in Augustine’s Confessions