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Augustine of Hippo’sThe City of God is generally considered to be one of the key works of Late Antiquity. Written in response to allegations that Christianity had brought about the decline of Rome, Augustine here explores themes in history, political science, and Christian theology, and argues for the truth of Christianity over competing religions and philosophies.
This Companion volume includes specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars that provide new insights into The City of God. Offering commentary on each of this massive work’s twenty-two books, they sequentially and systematically explore The City of God as a whole. Collectively, these essays demonstrate the development and coherence of Augustine’s argument. The volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ancient and contemporary theology, philosophy, cultural studies, and political theory.
Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J., Liz. Theol., D.Phil. (Oxon.) is Professor of Theology and the Director of the Catholic Studies Centre at Saint Louis University. He has published widely on the early Church; his most recent works include Peter Chrysologus (2020); The Cambridge Companion to St. Augustine (2014); and Augustine On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement, and the Vulnerable Christ(2019).
Notes on Contributors
John C. Cavadini is Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, having served as Chair from 1997 to 2010. Since 2000, he has served as the Director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame. He received a B.A. in 1975 from Wesleyan University; an M.A. in 1979 from Marquette University; M.A., 1981, M.Phil., 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1988 from Yale University, before coming to Notre Dame in 1990, where he has taught and published widely in patristic and early medieval theology, the theology of Augustine, and the history of biblical and patristic exegesis.
Cavadini was appointed by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to serve on the International Theological Commission, and in 2018 he received the Monika K. Hellwig Award from the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Intellectual Life. Mark Edwards was appointed University Lecturer in Patristics in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford, and Tutor in Theology at Christ Church Oxford in 1993; he is now Professor of Early Christian Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Religion. His publications relevant to Augustine include Optatus: Against the Donatists (1997); Neoplatonic Saints (2000); and contributions to A. Fitzgerald (ed.), Augustine through the Ages (1999); M. Vessey (ed.), A Companion to Augustine (2012); E. Bermon and G. O'Daly (eds.), Le De Trinitate de Saint Augustin (2012); K. Pollmann (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the Reception of Augustine (2013); A. Marmodoro and B. D. Prince (eds.), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (2015); and R. Miles (ed.), The Donatist Schism (2016).
Dean Hammer is the John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has published widely in many areas of political thought, and is the author of Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine (2014); Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008); The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought(2002); and is editor of A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (2015).
Andrew Hofer, O.P. is Associate Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC, where he also serves as Director of the Doctoral Program and book review editor of The Thomist. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (2013) and co-editor of Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (2019). Funded by a Calvin Institute TeacherScholar grant, his present project of Patristic Preaching: The Word of God Becoming Flesh considers the incarnational preaching of seven early Christian preachers, including Augustine, within the ancient dichotomy of words and deeds.
David G. Hunter, Ph.D. holds the Margaret O'Brien Flatley Chair of Catholic Theology at Boston College. He has published several books and numerous articles on Greek and Latin writers of the early Church, among them Augustine, Ambrosiaster, Jerome, and John Chrysostom. His most recent books include Marriage and Sexuality in Ancient Christianity (2018) and Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Early Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy (2007). He is also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (2008), has served as President of the North American Patristics Society and as a visiting scholar at Nottingham University, Central European University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Villanova University. Mary M. Keys is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She received her B.A. from Boston College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests are in political theory and the history of political thought, focusing on Christianity, ethics, virtue, legal philosophy, and politics. She is the author of Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good (2006), and of articles appearing in the American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought; and Perspectives on Political Science. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Earhart Foundation, and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. Mathijs Lamberigts is Professor of Church History in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he also obtained his M.A. in Classics as well as his Ph.D. in Theology (with a specialization in Church History). He is also Research Fellow of the NCU at Toruń, he is also the editor-in-chief of the internationally renowned Revue d’histoire ecclésaistique, as well as the Director of both the Augustinian Historical Institute and the Conciliar Center for the Study of Vatican II. He has published extensively on the Pelagian controversy, with a special focus on the role of Julian of Aeclanum in this debate. He has also written numerous articles on the role of the Belgian bishops and theologians during the Second Vatican Council.
David Vincent Meconi, S.J. is Professor of Historical Theology as well as the Director of the Catholic Studies Centre at Saint Louis University. He holds the Pontifical License in Patrology from the University of Innsbruck and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. His published works on Augustine include the Annotated Confessions of Saint Augustine (2012); and The One Christ: St. Augustine's Theology of Deification (2013; pbk. 2018), he has co-edited (along with Eleonore Stump) the Cambridge Companion to Augustine (2014), and most recently, Reading Augustine: On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement and the Vulnerable Christ (2019). He is also a regular visiting Professor of Patristics at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, as well as the editor of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review. Isabel Moreira is Professor of History at the University of Utah. She is the author of numerous studies of religion and society in late antiquity and the early middle ages, including Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul (2000); and Heaven’s Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity (2010; pbk. 2014). Dr. Moreira is also co-editor, with Margaret Toscano, of Hell and Its Afterlife: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2010). She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and two daughters.
Oliver O’Donovan is Emeritus Professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at University College School, Hampstead, at Balliol College and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and at the University of Princeton, and then went on to teach at Oxford and the University of Toronto before being named Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church at the University of Oxford from 1982 to 2006. From 2006 to 2012 he was Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh, and has been an Honorary Professor of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews since 2013. Dr. O’Donovan has written on the ethical theory of St. Augustine, the theological basis of moral concepts, contemporary bioethical dilemmas, political theology, and the ethics of war. He has served the Church of England as a member of the Board for Society Responsibility, the Doctrine Commission, the Faith and Order Advisory Group, and the General Synod, and most recently convened the Archbishops’ review of the Crown Nominations Commission. He is a former President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, a Fellow of the British Academy since 2000, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2007. He is married to Joan Lockwood O’Donovan and they have two sons.
Michael Sweeney is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in Philosophy from Marquette University, an M.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto, an S.T.B. from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Moscow, Russia from 1998 to 1999. He is the author of two books: Srednevekovaya Khristyanskaya Filosofiya [Medieval Christian Philosophy] (trans. A. K. Lyavdanski, 2001); and Politicheskaya Filosofiya Srednikh Vekov [Political Philosophy of the Middle Agesi] (trans. A. K. Lyavdanski and M. B. Kravchenko, 2006). He is the editor of Justice through Diversity? A Philosophical and Theological Debate (2016). Christian Tornau is Professor of Classical Philology at Würzburg University in Germany. His main research interests are ancient philosophy, rhetoric, and the literature of early Christianity. He has published widely on Neoplatonism, especially Plotinus, and on Augustine. His monographic studies include a commentary on Plotinus, entitled Plotin, Enneaden VI 4–5 [22–23]: Ein Kommentar (1998), as well as an inquiry into the relationship of rhetorical strategy and philosophical content in Augustine’s City of God, namely, Zwischen Rhetorik und Philosophie: Augustins Argumentationstechnik in De civitate Dei und ihr bildungsgeschichtlicher Hintergrund (2006).
James Wetzel is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and currently holds the Augustinian endowed chair. His work on Augustinian themes broadly concerns the transmission of a wisdom tradition through Platonism. He is the author of Augustine and the Limits of Virtue (1992); Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010); and Parting Knowledge: Essays after Augustine (2013). He is also the editor of Augustine’s City of God (2012), a volume in the Cambridge Critical Guide series. Jonathan P. Yates is Professor of Historical Theology at Villanova University and an alumnus (Ph.D.) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research focuses on North African Christianity’s relationship to its sacred texts. Jonathan has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and edited volumes in addition to editing Augustinian Studies for a decade. He is currently coediting a two-volume handbook entitled The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Christian North Africa for DeGruyter. Part 1 was published in 2020. Part 2 will appear in 2022.
Preface
This volume is a unique collection of essays addressing the many diverse and rich themes found throughout Augustine’s City of God (ciu. Dei). When Alaric had traveled southward to sack what had been the glory of Rome, he upturned not only city and street, but psyche and perception as well. Rome’s importance had by now grown old and, although it was felt by many, Rome’s splendor was still being celebrated by its loyalists in poetry, history, and hymnody. Alaric had, however, exposed Rome’s mortality, and news reached African shores from those fleeing persecution.
The Bishop of Hippo was aware of the antiChristian fallout after Rome’s own fall. He therefore set out to address the accusations that Rome had fallen because this new sect called Christian had forsaken the empire’s customary deities. For Rome’s traditionalists were blaming tempora christiana for the blight of romanitas: having abandoned the ancient religions, Christians were now incriminated for failing to worship rightly. In response, and for over a decade, Augustine set to work to show not only what had been inherently wrong with Roman religion for centuries, but also why the God of Jesus Christ is the only solution to a society’s, not to mention a soul’s, ills.
All experts in the kaleidoscopic thought of Augustine, fourteen scholars from the areas of philosophy, theology, classics, and political science have been brought together in this one volume in order to bring out the major ideas of each of the books of the ciu. Dei, and to show how each book contributes to Augustine’s overall argument that two loves faces each of us, the love of self as opposed to the love of God, the earthly city against the City of God.
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