Explorations in Augustine's Anthropology: (23 Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity)

What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? This question has occupied a group of researchers from Brazil and Europe and has been explored at two workshops during which the contributors to this volume have discussed anthropological themes in Augustine’s vast corpus. In this volume, the reader will find articles on a wide spectrum of Augustine’s anthropological ideas. Some contributions focus on specific texts, while others focus on specific theological or philosophical aspects of Augustine’s anthropology. The authors of the articles in this volume are convinced that Augustine’s anthropology is of major importance for how human beings have been understood in Western civilization for better or for worse. The topic is therefore highly relevant to present times in which humanity is under pressure from various sides.

Table of Contents:
Preface – Introduction – Fabio Dalpra: The Reception of the Concept of Participation in Early Christianity: Origen’s On First Principles and Augustine’s On the Trinity. – Ivan Bilheiro: A Man Victimized by Doubt: Skepticism as an Antropological Problem for Augustin in Contra Academicos – Lenka Karfíková: The Soul in Augustine’s Dialogue De quantitate animae – Humberto Araújo Quaglio de Souza: Being, Human Being, and Truth in Augustine’s De Magistro: A Christian "Ontoanthropology" of the Self – Morten Kock Møller: "Diabolum potius poneret": Augustine’s reception of Origen’s Commentarii in Epistulam ad Romanos in Epistle 157 –Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Augustine on human freedom and free will – Eva Elisabeth Houth Vrangbæk: The Fall of the Will: An Investigation of the Will of Man Before and After the Fall in De civitate Dei – Fabio Dalpra: Augustine of Hippo’s Anthropology in The Trinity – Monnica Klöckener: Augustine’s Anthropology in tractatus in Iohannem 15 – Margrethe Kamille Birkler/Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Augustine on Human Resurrection – Antonio Henrique Campolina Martins: The Influence of Augustine of Hippo on The Rule of Benedict’s Anthropology – Bibliography – Indices

About the Author :
Fabio Dalpra is an associate professor in Humanities at the Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Southern Minas Gerais. He has a PhD degree in Religious Studies at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil. His areas of interest are Late Antique Philosophy and Patristic Studies. Anders-Christian Jacobsen is a professor at Systematic Theology, Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is a member of the interdisciplinary and international research center Center for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity (C-SAC) as well. He is furthermore Treasurer of the International Association of Patristic Studies (IAPS/AIEP), leader of the EU-funded Marie Curie ITN-network The History of Human Freedom and Dignity in Western Civilization, and associate fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS). His research focus on patristics, especially on Origen, Irenaeus, and Augustine.