Augustine and History

by Daly, Christopher T.; Doody, John; Paffenroth, Kim; Busch, Peter; Carroll, James T.; Doull, Floy; Hill, Marylu; Hoskins, Gregory; Kloos, Kari; Murphy, Andrew R.; Peddle, David; Prud'homme, Joseph; Stone, Harold; Whelan, Ruth; Wright, Paul R.

• ISBN13: 9780739122709
• ISBN10: 0739122703
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-24
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Augustine and History relates history to Augustine's thoughts, life, and writings in several distinct but connected ways. The essays place Augustine in his historical context, analyze his theory and practice of historiography, and examine his impact on later historians and controversies. Augustine's intellect and influence are elaborated upon in contexts as disparate as the Fall of Rome, debates on the death penalty, and even the reactions to 9/11. This collection of scholarly essays is excellent for a wide-ranging academic audience. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Augustine's Theory and Practice of Historiography
On the Use and Disadvantage of History for the Afterlife	p. 3
History as Witness: Augustine's Interpretation of the History of Israel in Contra Faustum and De trinitate	p. 31
Augustine and the Rhetoric of Roman Decline	p. 53
Augustine's Place in History
He Promised Much and Did It All: Augustine and Historians	p. 77
Dissent and the Death Penalty: Developing a Comparative Perspective	p. 89
The Wage of Sin Is Orthodoxy: The Confessions of Saint Augustine in Bayle's Dictionnaire	p. 155
Comparisons of Augustine and Later Historians
Augustine and Hegel on the History of Rome	p. 169
A True History of Ourselves: Augustine, Carlyle, and the Case for Biography	p. 197
Augustine and Ricoeur on the Circle of Time and Narrative	p. 221
Book 18 of The City of God, Bianchini's Universal History, and the New Science of Vico	p. 243
Propaganda and the Pornography of Cataclysm: Augustine and Luigi Guicciardini's The Sack of Rome	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 295
Index	p. 313
About the Contributors	p. 323
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