Augustine, sinner & Saint: a new biography
"Born Aurelius Augustinus in Tagaste, now Souk Ahras, Algeria, in 354 AD, this trail-blazing churchman was not baptized a Christian until the age of 33, following a religious crisis that ended his meteoric rise from provincial obscurity to the fringes of an imperial court. Nine years later, he...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Born Aurelius Augustinus in Tagaste, now Souk Ahras, Algeria, in 354 AD, this trail-blazing churchman was not baptized a Christian until the age of 33, following a religious crisis that ended his meteoric rise from provincial obscurity to the fringes of an imperial court. Nine years later, he was ordained a bishop at Hippo, a wealthy port city in Roman-ruled North Africa. Not long after, between the years 397 and 401, he wrote the Confessions - a profound, intimate work of meditation on his own identity, his pasts, and his future." "Who was Augustine before, after, and beyond the Confessions? What strengths of character and twists of fate, or perhaps 'predestination' (a notion he vigorously defended), propelled the son of a minor landowner, with no money to speak of and few connections, to become a powerful leader and eloquent shaper of affairs in his own time? Beyond dogma, what is Augustine's legacy for global history?" "In this biography James J. O'Donnell, preeminent Augustinian scholar, offers insights into a figure - saint to many - who turns out to be more complex, more important, and perhaps more interesting than even readers of the Confessions suspect."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 396 S. |
| ISBN: | 1861976860 |
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Autor: O Donnell, James Joseph
Jahr: 2005
CONTENTS
Map of the Mediterranean and North Africa x
Chronology xiii
PROLOGUE: AUGUSTINE S VOICE 1
I. THE VIEW FROM AFRICA 9
Hippo and Beyond 9
The Wider World 15
Why Augustine Came to Hippo—
and Why He Stayed There 19
397: Augustine Comes Out 26
II. AUGUSTINE CONFESSES 35
Making the Confessions 36
What Augustine Did Confess 37
The Narrator Narrates Himself 41
III. A MODERN CLASSIC 63
Lusting for Celibacy 74
Aftermath of a Classic 78
What If... 80
Augustine s Soul 81
Dark Origins 84
Rest Eternal 85
IV. AUGUSTINE UNVARNISHED 87
Augustine the Self-Promoter 88
Augustine the Social Climber 89
VIII CONTENTS
Angustine die Correspondent 91
Augustine the Friend—and His Friends ???
Augustine the Private Person 106
Augustine the Troublemaker 109
V. AUGUSTINE IN HIS BOOKS 113
Augustine s Tongue 113
Augustine in the Library 120
Augustine s Bible 126
Modes of Interpreting the Scripture 133
Augustine the Writer 135
Not Every Reader Is a Great Reader 143
VI. AUGUSTINE IN PUBLIC 147
Augustine in Church 147
Bringing in the Sheaves 149
No Parties, Please, We re Christian! 150
Surrounded by Demons 152
The Bishop Utters a Hard Saying 155
The Bishop Tries to Offer Comfort 157
Keeping the Flock in Line 159
Keeping the Shepherds in Line 163
A Glimpse of the Saintly Bishop 169
VII. AUGUSTINE AND THE INVENTION
OF CHRISTIANITY 171
Augustine the Glunchist 171
Feasts of Stephen 174
How Augustine s Religion Worked 179
Christianity As We Know It.. . 190
Don Quixote of Hippo 202
VIII. THE AUGUSTIN I AN PUTSCH IN AFRICA 209
Augustine the Caecilianist 209
A Cold War Heats Up 219
Augustine s Year of Crisis 227
In the Baths of Gargilius, June 411 234
CONTENTS IX
IX. LOOMINGS 245
Marcellinus s Friends 247
Marcellinus s Friends—Again 253
The Silence of Eméritas 255
Peace and War 259
X. AUGUSTINE S GREAT FAILURE 261
I Am Augustine 261
Ascesis and Agony 264
What Was at Stake with Pelagius 271
Last Enemies 278
Augustine in Parody 285
XI. AUGUSTINE THE THEOLOGIANS 287
Augustine s God 289
Homo augustiniamis 295
The Never-ending Divorce 303
The Authority of Augustine 307
Augustine the Catholic 312
XII. WHO WAS AUGUSTINE? 315
Death in Hippo 315
The Second Installment of the Confessions 317
After Augustine 319
When Saints Die 324
What s Left? 328
EPILOGUE: WE ARE NOT WHO WE THINK WE ARE 331
Ptirsuing Augustine Further 333
Abbreviations for Works Cited 337
Notes 341
Author s Note 375
Index 377
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