Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions

by Karla Pollmann (Editor), Mark Vessey (Editor)

Overview

Augustine and the Disciplines takes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became the focus of medieval culture in the West. Augustine himself became increasingly aware that an ambivalent attitude towards knowledge and learning was inherent in Christianity. By facing the intellectual challenge posed by this tension he arrived at a new theory of how to interpret the Bible correctly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199230044
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/07/2007
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	733,737
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Karla Pollmann is Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading.

Mark Vessey is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Mark VesseyI. Honesta studia: classrooms without walls2. Disciplines of discipleship in late antique education: Augustine and Gregory Nazianzen, Neil McLynn3. The duty of a teacher: liminality and disciplina in Augustine's De Ordine, Catherine ConybeareII. Disciplinarum libri: the canon in question4. Augustine's disciplines: silent diutius Musae Varronis?, Danuta R. Shanzer5. Divination and the disciplines of knowledge according to Augustine, William E. Klingshirn6. The vocabulary of the liberal arts in Augustine's Confessions, Philip BurtonIII. Doctrina Christiana: beyond the disciplines7. The grammarian's spoils: De Doctrina Christiana and the contexts of literary education, Catherine M. Chin8. Augustine's critique of dialectic: between Ambrose and the Arians, Stefan Hessbruggen-Walter9. Augustine's hermeneutics as a universal discipline?, Karla Pollmann