St Augustine

by Lancel, Serge

• ISBN13: 9780334028666
• ISBN10: 0334028663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Scm Pr

Summary

There is in the life and thought of Augustine: endless complexity, subtlety and nuance and to this, Lancel provides a magnificent guide. International Journal of Systematic Theology

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
A Son of Thagaste	p. 1
Thagaste	p. 3
Monica	p. 8
A Numidian Childhood	p. 14
Carthage	p. 23
From Cicero to Mani	p. 29
A Manichaen Rhetor Between Thagaste and Carthage	p. 37
First Achievements	p. 45
Between Rome and Milan	p. 58
Ambrose	p. 67
386: Intellectual Conversion	p. 78
386: Conversion of the Will	p. 90
Cassiciacum	p. 99
Ostia	p. 112
A Second Season in Rome	p. 121
Otium at Thagaste	p. 130
The Bishop of Hippo	p. 145
Hippo Regius: Priesthood	p. 147
Donatism	p. 162
Elevation to the Episcopacy	p. 174
396-397	p. 187
The Confessions	p. 204
A Monk in His Monasteries	p. 221
A Bishop in His Churches, at Hippo	p. 235
A Bishop in His Diocese	p. 246
A Bishop in the World of His Time	p. 259
The Unity of the Church	p. 271
The Carthage Conference of 411	p. 287
Dialogue with the Pagans	p. 306
The Doctor of Grace	p. 323
Pelagius	p. 325
418-419	p. 347
'Seek His Face Evermore': The De Trinitate	p. 368
The City of God	p. 391
Julian of Eclanum	p. 413
Death and the Hereafter	p. 439
Epilogue	p. 457
Additional notes	p. 480
Principal chronological highlights	p. 531
Table of St. Augustine's works in chronological order	p. 533
Bibliography	p. 537
Complementary bibliography in English	p. 547
Index of names of people and places	p. 548
Index of authors other than Augustine	p. 554
Augustinian index	p. 559
Subject index	p. 574
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