{"title":"God Has Chosen: the Doctrine of Election through Christian History","authors":"Nathaniel Porter","doi":"10.5840/arendtstudies202155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/arendtstudies202155","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48309732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labor in a Life of Liturgy: De Opere Monachorum and the Potential of Monastic Labor","authors":"Zachary T. Settle","doi":"10.5840/augstudies20218965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies20218965","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42817097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Augustinian StudiesPub Date : 2021-08-30DOI: 10.5840/0.5840/arendtstudies202153
Brian A. Butcher
{"title":"Orthodox Readings of Augustine. Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought.","authors":"Brian A. Butcher","doi":"10.5840/0.5840/arendtstudies202153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/0.5840/arendtstudies202153","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41593739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Augustine and the Problem of Bodily Desire","authors":"J. M. Evans","doi":"10.5840/augstudies202181267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies202181267","url":null,"abstract":"In what sense did Augustine attribute desires to the human body itself? Scholars disagree substantially about how to answer this question, yet it has rarely been treated as anything approaching a scholarly quaestio disputata. Some hold that bodily desire is in principle impossible according to Augustine’s anthropology. Others hold that bodily desire is of marginal significance in Augustine’s system. Still others hold that bodily desire is a central problem in human life according to Augustine. This essay is an intervention intended to prompt further exchange about the interpretation of Augustine’s thought on the issue of bodily desire. To achieve that goal, the essay closely examines two texts from Augustine’s writings against Julian of Eclanum in the early 420s. In book I of De nuptiis et concupiscentia, Augustine argues that the body does have its own desires and they are an extensive problem in human life. Furthermore, in Contra Iulianum we find that Augustine himself responds to three crucial objections that might be raised against my interpretation. In short, late in his life Augustine treated bodily desire as a grave and pervasive problem. The essay does not address his views in his earlier works. As an intervention, the essay inevitably prompts important questions it cannot fully address, especially around Augustine’s philosophy of mind, the development of Augustine’s thought, and the implications of Augustine’s claims about the body for other elements of his theological project. Future investigations will hopefully take up these topics in the scholarly exchange this intervention intends to foster.","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49324090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness","authors":"Alexander H. Pierce","doi":"10.5840/arendtstudies202157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/arendtstudies202157","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43071992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement","authors":"C. Ford","doi":"10.5840/arendtstudies2021510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/arendtstudies2021510","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44756281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing by the Light: Illumination in Augustine’s and Barth’s Readings of John","authors":"Travis E. Ables","doi":"10.5840/ARENDTSTUDIES202156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ARENDTSTUDIES202156","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41575338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity","authors":"Eric J. Fournier","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES202152169","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"109-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43633562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metaphoric Speculation: Rereading Book 15 of Augustine’s De Trinitate","authors":"Emeline McClellan","doi":"10.5840/AUGSTUDIES20213563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/AUGSTUDIES20213563","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that De trinitate advocates a process of “reading” God through metaphor. For Augustine, as for Plotinus, human beings understand God (to the degree that this is possible) not by analyzing him rationally but by seeing him through the metaphor of the human mind. But unlike Plotinus, Augustine claims that the imago dei, with its triadic structure of memory, understanding, and will, serves as metaphor only to the extent that it experiences Christ’s redemptive illumination. The act of metaphor is a kind of interior “reading” during which the mind reads the imago dei as a mental text, interprets this text through Christ’s aid, and is simultaneously transformed into a better image.","PeriodicalId":43369,"journal":{"name":"Augustinian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"71-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48291988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}