Augustine and the Study of Signs and Signification
De Musica
by Augustinus, Aurelius, Heiliger
fromCorpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
De musica
by Dorfbauer, Lukas J., (Lukas Julius)
fromCorpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
This is the first critical edition of all six books of Augustine's De musica. Originally meant as part of a series of treatises on the liberal arts, it is especially important because of its presentation of metrics. Book six offers a theological discussion of perception based on…
This dissertation argues that Augustine’s theory of sense-perception forms a conceptual metaphor which fundamentally structures his theological thought concerning the reformation of the soul. An account of how this metaphor operates, therefore, yields a basic schema, a system of…
Over the past two decades there has been a surge of scholarly interest in Augustine’s theology of deification, with David Vincent Meconi’s book, The One Christ: Augustine’s Theology of Deification, providing the definitive study of the different aspects of Augustine’s theology o…
In City of God Augustine refers to the theatre as a “pestilence” on the morals of the Roman people. Further, he devotes a large portion of the third book of the Confessions to outlining his own sinful experiences with the theatre and a Platonic attack on the poetical arts. From …
This work unfolds in three moves to explore the rise in fear and anxiety in young adults and to provide a theological response from a chapel office on a college campus. The first move involves an exegetical reading of the Markan parable (adapted in Matthew) of “Binding the Stron…
Augusitne of Hippo was born in Thagaste, North Africa, in 354, and died in 430 after serving as bishop of the North African city of Hippo Regius for thirty-five years. His writings are an invaluable account of a tumultuous period of the Christian Roman empire, internally divided…