Augustine in His Own Words (continued)
452 Further Reading wer, 1992). Confessions is certainly Augustine's most studied book. Here is a very small selection of both classic and recent studies: Burns, J. Patout, "Ambrose Preaching to Augustine: The Shaping of Faith." In Augustine: Second Founder of the Faith, 373–86. Ed. Joseph C. Schnaubelt and Frederick van Fleteren. New York: Peter Lang, 1990. Burton, Philip. Language in the Confessions of Augustine. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2007. Cavadini, John C. "Time and Ascent in Confessions XI." In Augustine: Presbyter Factus
Sum, 171–85. Ed. Joseph T. Lienhard et al. Collectanea Augustiniana. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. Chadwick, Henry. "History and Symbolism in the Garden at Milan." In From Augustine to Eriugena: Essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in Honor of John O'Meara, 42– 55. Ed. F. X. Martin and J. A. Richmond. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1991. Courcelle, Pierre. Recherches sur les Confessions de saint Augustin. 2nd ed. Paris: E. de
Boccard, 1968. ———. Les Confessions de saint Augustin dans la tradition littéraire: Antécédents et postérité.
Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 15. Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1963. Feldman, E. "Confessiones." Augustinus-Lexikon, 1:1134–94. Ed. Cornelius Mayer.
Basel: Schwabe, 1986. Fredriksen, Paula. "Paul and Augustine: Conversion Narratives, Orthodox Traditions, and the Retrospective Self." Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 37 (1986): 3–34. Kenney, John Peter. The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Re-Reading the Confessions. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Kotzé, Annemaré. Augustine's Confessions: Communicative Purpose and Audience. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 71. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. Madec, Goulven. "Le néoplatonisme dans la conversion d'Augustin: État d'une question centenaire (depuis Harnack et Boissier, 1888)." In Petites Études Augustiniennes, 51–69. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 142. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 1994. O'Connell, Robert J. St. Augustine's Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969. Controversial, but full of insights. ———. Images of Conversion in Saint Augustine's Confessions. New York: Fordham University Press, 1995. O'Meara, John J. The Young Augustine: An Introduction to the Confessions of St. Augustine.
2nd ed. 1956; reprint: New York: Alba House, 2001. A classic. ———. "Augustine's Confessions: Elements of Fiction." In Augustine: From Rhetor to Theologian, 77–96. Ed. Joanne McWilliam. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992. Paffenroth, Kim, and Robert Peter Kennedy, eds. A Reader's Companion to Augustine's
Confessions. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003. Ramsey, Boniface. Ambrose. The Early Church Fathers. New York: Routledge, 1997. Young, Frances. "The Confessions of St. Augustine: What Is the Genre of this Work?"
1998 St. Augustine Lecture. Augustinian Studies 30 (1999): 1–16. Le Confessioni di Agostino (402–2002): Bilancio e prospettive: XXXI Incontro di studiosi
Further Reading 453 dell'antichità cristiana, Roma, 2–4 maggio 2002. Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2003.
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Augustine the Philosopher: Studies
Augustine's lifestyle and mood in this transitional period from Cassiciacum to Thagaste (387 to 391) are well evoked in Brown, Augustine of Hippo, pp. 115–37. A good introduction to the philosophical dimensions of Augustine's thought is the collection of essays edited by Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). For brief, cogent perspectives, see Goulven Madec, Saint Augustin et la philosophie: Notes critiques, Collections des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 149 (Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 1996). Also excellent is John M. Rist, Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Below I have listed two types of works: (i) ones that focus on Augustine's more philosophically oriented early treatises; (ii) ones that more broadly examine underlying philosophical concerns spanning the course of his career: Bouton-Touboulic, Anne Isabelle. L'ordre caché: La notion d'ordre chez saint Augustin. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 174. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2004. Conybeare, Catherine. The Irrational Augustine. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Hadot, Pierre. Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision. Trans. Michael Chase. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Hagendahl, Harald. Augustine and the Latin Classics. Studia Graeca et Latina XX. Guteborg: Acta Universitatis Cothoburgensis, 1967. Harrison, Carol. Rethinking Augustine's Early Theology: An Argument for Continuity. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Holte, Ragnar. Béatitude et sagesse: Saint Augustin et le problème de la fin de l'homme dans la philosophie ancienne. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 14. Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1962. Madec, Goulven. "Augustine et son fils: Le Christ Maître intérieur." In Lectures Augustiniennes, 43–58. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 168. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2001. Matthews, Gareth B. Augustine. Blackwell Great Minds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. ———. Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Marrou, Henri-Iréné. Saint Augustin et la fin de la culture antique. 4th ed. Paris: de Boccard, 1958. A classic. McWilliam, Joanne. "The Cassiciacum Autobiography." Studia Patristica 18/4 (1990): 14–43. O'Connell, Robert J. St. Augustine's Early Theory of Man, A.D. 386–391. Cambridge, 454 Further Reading
MA: Belknap Press, 1968. Controversial, but threaded with valuable insights. ———. Art and the Christian Intelligence in St. Augustine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1978. O'Daly, Gerard J. P. Augustine's Philosophy of Mind. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1987. O'Meara, Dominic J. Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. O'Meara, John J. Studies in Augustine and Eriugena. Ed. Thomas Halton. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1992. Valuable essays on Augustine's Neoplatonism. Pollman, Karla, and Mark Vessey, eds. Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Rombs, Ronnie J. Augustine and the Fall of the Soul: Beyond O'Connell and His Critics.
Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Teske, Roland J. To Know God and the Soul: Essays on the Thought of St. Augustine. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. Testard, Maurice. Saint Augustin et Cicéron. 2 vols. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 5–6. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 1958. Wetzel, James. Augustine and the Limits of Virtue. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1992.
Augustine the Bishop: Studies
Peter Brown's and Serge Lancel's biographies offer helpful portraits of Augustine the bishop. Brown captures the mood and atmosphere of Augustine's congregation and North African Christianity (pp. 183–206); Lancel does an excellent job on matters of archeology and incorporates perspectives from the recent Divjak letters (pp. 235–70). The classic study is by Frederic van der Meer, Augustine the Bishop: The Life and Work of a Father of the Church, trans. B. Battershaw and G. R. Lamb (London: Sheed and Ward, 1961); while badly dated in certain ways, it still has much to offer. The publication of 31 letters discovered by Johannes Divjak has opened new perspectives, especially on Augustine's later years; see the studies in Claude Lepelley, ed., Les Lettres de saint Augustin découvertes par Johannes Divjak, Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 98 (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1983). See also: Chadwick, Henry. "The New Letters of St. Augustine." Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 34 (1983): 425–52. Reprinted in Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Early Church. London: Variorum Reprints, 1991. Doyle, Daniel E. The Bishop as Disciplinarian in the Letters of St. Augustine. Patristic Studies 4. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Hermanowicz, Erika. Possidius of Calama: A Study of the North African Episcopate in the Age of Augustine. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Lawless, George. Augustine of Hippo and His Monastic Rule. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.