The Cambridge Companion to Augustine

by Edited by Eleonore Stump , Norman Kretzmann

• ISBN13: 9780521659857
• ISBN10: 052165985X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the work of Augustine of Hippo, both in his own period and in the subsequent history of Western philosophy. Until the thirteenth century, when he may have had a competitor in Thomas Aquinas, he was the most important philosopher of the medieval period. Many of his views, including his theory of the just war, his account of time and eternity, his understanding of the will, his attempted resolution of the problem of evil, and his approach to the relation of faith and reason, have continued to be influential up to the present time. In this volume of specially-commissioned essays, sixteen scholars provide a wide-ranging and stimulating contribution to our understanding of Augustine, covering all the major areas of his philosophy and theology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
List of abbreviations	xiv
Introduction	1	(7)
Augustine: his time and lives	8	(18)
James J. O'Donnell
Faith and reason	26	(14)
John Rist
Augustine on evil and original sin	40	(9)
William E. Mann
Predestination, Pelagianism, and foreknowledge	49	(10)
James Wetzel
Biblical interpretation	59	(12)
Thomas Williams
The divine nature	71	(20)
Scott Macdonald
De Trinitate	91	(12)
Mary T. Clark
Time and creation in Augustine	103	(13)
Simo Knuutila
Augustine's theory of soul	116	(8)
Roland Teske
Augustine on free will	124	(24)
Eleonore Stump
Augustine's philosophy of memory	148	(11)
Roland Teske
The response to skepticism and the mechanisms of Cognition	159	(12)
Gerard O'Daly
Knowledge and illumination	171	(15)
Gareth B. Matthews
Augustine's philosophy of Language	186	(19)
Christopher Kirwan
Augustine's ethics	205	(29)
Bonnie Kentt
Augustine's political philosophy	234	(19)
Paul Weithman
Augustine and medieval philosophy	253	(14)
M.W.F. Stone
Post-medieval Augustinianism	267	(13)
Gareth B. Matthews
Bibliography	280	(17)
Index	297