Augustine and Liberal Education

by Paffenroth, Kim; Hughes, Kevin L.

• ISBN13: 9780754613343
• ISBN10: 0754613348
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Summary

Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) - Bishop, theologian, philosopher, and rhetorician - has left a rich legacy for reflection upon relationships between Christianity and culture, between Christian catechesis and liberal education, and between faith and reason. Contemporary educational institutions have begun to explore their roots, digging into their intellectual traditions for the resources for renewal of liberal education.Augustine and Liberal Education sheds light on liberal education past and present, from an Augustinian point of view. Ranging from historical investigations of particular themes and issues in the thought of Saint Augustine, to reflections on the role of tradition and community and the challenges and opportunities facing universities in the next century, the contributors return to the sources of traditional reflection whilst exploring contemporary issues of education and 'the good life'. Essays on Augustinian inquiry in medieval and modern eras address critical questions on the role of rhetoric, reading, and authority in education, on the social context of learning, and on the relationship between liberal education and properly Christian catechesis. Contemporary questions on liberal education from philosophical, political, theological, and ethical perspectives are then explored in the essays which move from the past to the present.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Foreword	x
John Immerwahr
Kim Paffenroth
Kevin L. Hughes
PART I: EDUCATION IN THE CONFESSIONS
Bad Habits and Bad Company: Education and Evil in the Confessions	3	(12)
Kim Paffenroth
Models of Teaching and Models of Learning in the Confessions	15	(10)
Debra Romanick Baldwin
Augustine's Confessions as Pedagogy: Exercises in Transformation	25	(30)
Thomas F. Martin
PART II: EDUCATION IN AUGUSTINE'S OTHER WORKS
Study as Love: Augustinian Vision and Catholic Education	55	(26)
Phillip Cary
The Bishop as Teacher	81	(14)
Daniel Doyle
The ``Arts Reputed Liberal'': Augustine on the Perils of Liberal Education	95	(16)
Kevin L. Hughes
PART III: TEACHING AND AUTHORITY IN AUGUSTINE
Augustine's Pedagogy of Intellectual Liberation: Turning Students from the ``Truth of Authority'' to the ``Authority of Truth''	111	(13)
Richard M. Jacobs
The Limits of Augustine's Personal Authority: The Hermeneutics of Trust in De utilitate credendi	124	(22)
Felix B. Asiedu
Limit and Possibility: An Augustinian Counsel to Authority	146	(17)
Mark J. Doorley
Augustine and English Protestants: Authority and Order, Coercion and Dissent in the Earthly City	163	(16)
Andrew R. Murphy
PART IV: LIBERAL EDUCATION SINCE AUGUSTINE
Reading without Moving Your Lips: The Role of the Solitary Reader in Liberal Education	179	(19)
Marylu Hill
The Motives for Liberal Education	198
Thomas W. Smith