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Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions

Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions


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Augustine and the Disciplines takes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became the focus of medieval culture in the West. Augustine himself became increasingly aware that an ambivalent attitude towards knowledge and learning was inherent in Christianity. By facing the intellectual challenge posed by this tension he arrived at a new theory of how to interpret the Bible correctly. The topics investigated here include: Augustine's changing relationship with the 'disciplines', as he moved from an attempt at their Christianization (in the philosophical dialogues of Cassiciacum) to a radical reshaping of them within a Christian world-view (in the De Doctrina Christiana and Confessiones); the factors that prompted and facilitated his change of perspective; and the ways in which Augustine's evolving theory reflected contemporary trends in Christian pedagogy.

Table of Contents:
1: Mark Vessey: Introduction I. Honesta studia: classrooms without walls 2: Neil McLynn: Disciplines of discipleship in late antique education: Augustine and Gregory Nazianzen 3: Catherine Conybeare: The duty of a teacher: liminality and disciplina in Augustine's De Ordine II. Disciplinarum libri: the canon in question 4: Danuta R. Shanzer: Augustine's disciplines: silent diutius Musae Varronis? 5: William E. Klingshirn: Divination and the disciplines of knowledge according to Augustine 6: Philip Burton: The vocabulary of the liberal arts in Augustine's Confessions III. Doctrina Christiana: beyond the disciplines 7: Catherine M. Chin: The grammarian's spoils: De Doctrina Christiana and the contexts of literary education 8: Stefan Hessbruggen-Walter: Augustine's critique of dialectic: between Ambrose and the Arians 9: Karla Pollmann: Augustine's hermeneutics as a universal discipline?

About the Author :
Karla Polmann is Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading. Mark Vessey is Professor of English, University of British Columbia.

Review :
As a whole, Augustine and the Disciplines reads well, and it is wise to read first the Vessey introduction and then read it again when one is finished with the essays. His vision of the continuity among the essays helps the reader to 're-imagine' the conference itself and engage in the various essays as a common project aimed at solving some difficult - but important - questions in Augustinian scholorship today.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199230044
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 386 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199230048
  • Publisher Date: 11 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: From Cassiciacum to Confessions
  • Width: 138 mm


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