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Augustine On The Good Life, Vernon J. Bourke
Augustine On The Good Life, Vernon J. Bourke
University of Dayton Review
Throughout his career St. Augustine remained firmly convinced that wisdom is the key to living a good human life. In several of his early works and notably in Book III of the Confessions, Augustine tells us how he was strongly influenced by Cicero's Hortensius. It turned his mind, he says, to the study of the love of wisdom (liber ille ipsius exhortationem ad philosophiam). When, in the year 386, he and his friends were preparing for Augustine and his son Adeodatus to be baptized, one of the first discussions at Cassiciacum is recorded in the dialogue On the Happy Life …
Roman Africa In The Age Of Augustine, R. Bruce Hitchner
Roman Africa In The Age Of Augustine, R. Bruce Hitchner
University of Dayton Review
Some figures so transcend their time and place in the folk memory of a culture that historians have difficulty resituating them in the world from which they emerged. This is certainly true of St. Augustine of Hippo. Indeed, of all the great individuals of the Ancient World, St. Augustine is perhaps the one which most people would have trouble placing in time and space. It is therefore a useful exercise from time to time to reeducate ourselves regarding Augustine's cultural milieu. What makes this moment especially appropriate is not merely the occasion of this symposium, but the fact that over …
Mary T. Clark: In The Footsteps Of St. Augustine, Raymond M. Herbenick
Mary T. Clark: In The Footsteps Of St. Augustine, Raymond M. Herbenick
University of Dayton Review
I am particularly pleased to introduce to you Mary T. Clark, RSCJ, whose work Augustine: Philosopher of Freedom ranks among the classics of Augustinian scholarship on the problem of a personal will free from external constraints free for something positive. Sr. Clark is one of our presiding visiting scholars at the Augustine Colloquium and graciously offered to do her multimedia presentation as at Yale and at Oxford.
Dr. Hitchner’S Search For Theopolis, Dardanus' City Of God, Raymond M. Herbenick
Dr. Hitchner’S Search For Theopolis, Dardanus' City Of God, Raymond M. Herbenick
University of Dayton Review
Today we welcome Professor R. Bruce Hitchner of the Department of History at the University of Dayton and a Research Associate with our Center for International Programs. An archaeological historian of Late Roman Antiquity with on site studies of North Africa and Gaul to his credit, Dr. Hitchner proposed and then was funded by the College of Arts and Sciences for a limited archaeological site survey of Theopolis in the Spring of 1993 alongside his other funded research efforts last summer.
St. Augustine’S Transformation Of Platonic Political Philosophy, Christian Will And Pagan Spiritedness In De Libero Arbitrio , Patrick J.C. Powers
St. Augustine’S Transformation Of Platonic Political Philosophy, Christian Will And Pagan Spiritedness In De Libero Arbitrio , Patrick J.C. Powers
University of Dayton Review
St. Augustine is the preeminent early Christian thinker whose views continue to serve as a model for contemporary Christian thinking on moral and political issues. The heart of Augustine's thought is his conception of the faithful Christian whose life is informed by a quest for self-knowledge about one's place in the order of creation. Wisdom is acquired by perfecting love for the Creator and His creation. In The Confessions, this love is the cause of Augustine's pilgrimage back to the Creator from the human things. In The City of God, it is the principle according to which Augustine makes his …
Commentary: Augustine On The Will, Social Justice And Human Goodness, William F. Losito
Commentary: Augustine On The Will, Social Justice And Human Goodness, William F. Losito
University of Dayton Review
At the outset, let met me state my particular vantage point for commenting on these two excellent papers. I am not an accomplished Augustine scholar. My personal and professional relationship with Augustine's thought originates in my youth. As a high school senior, my parents gave me as a gift a copy of Augustine's Confessions. Only gradually over the several decades since that time, I have come to realize the hopes and fears that motivated my parents to make the gift. I frequently return to meditatively read that copy which has the layers of highlighting and margin notations tracking one spiritual …
Pluralism And Secularism In The Political Order: St. Augustine And Theoretical Liberalism, Michael J. White
Pluralism And Secularism In The Political Order: St. Augustine And Theoretical Liberalism, Michael J. White
University of Dayton Review
Hanc [pacem populus alienatus Deo] autem ut interim habeat in hac vita, etiam nostri interest; quoniam, quamdiu permixtae sunt ambae civitates, utimur et nos pace Babylonis; ex qua ita per fidem populus Dei liberatur, ut apud hanc interim peregrinetur. (It is also in our interest that [the people alienated from God] meanwhile possess this peace in this life; for so long as both cities are intermixed, we also make use of the peace of Babylon; from Babylon the people of God is so liberated through its faith that it may for a while sojourn in its midst.) Augustine, De civ. …
Commentary: On Papers By Yong Huang And Michael J. White, David Neil Mosser
Commentary: On Papers By Yong Huang And Michael J. White, David Neil Mosser
University of Dayton Review
As a pastor, there is no doubt my reading of Augustine is thoroughly theological in its perspective. I confess this from the outset. This being the case, it is extremely difficult for me to conceive that Augustine ever wrote in a mode detached from his conception that the highest goal for human life is to be conformed to the creative purpose for which it was intended. That is that human beings were created to find happiness or joy in the human quest finding peace in God. People then translate this quest into the love of neighbor in all human interactions, …
Augustine And The Problem Of Human Goodness, Ernest L. Fortin
Augustine And The Problem Of Human Goodness, Ernest L. Fortin
University of Dayton Review
To mention Augustine's name is to evoke one of a handful of towering geniuses in the history of the Christian West. Even in an age that has repudiated much of what he stands for, he is still acknowledged as a giant among giants, a phenomenon of sorts, a thinker of surpassing depth and subtlety. His weakness, if he has one, is that he tried to be all things to all people; his greatness, that he mostly succeeded.
Homily: Augustine’S Conversion, James L. Heft S.M.
Homily: Augustine’S Conversion, James L. Heft S.M.
University of Dayton Review
We are celebrating the solemn Vespers of the Ambrosian rite in honor of the conversion of St. Augustine. Our First Reading is taken from Book VIII of the Confessions, a word that means both praise and penitence. The first nine books of the thirteen books or chapters that make up the Confessions are written in the form of an autobiography down to the time of his mother Monica's death (Book IX especially). Our selection this evening is taken, quite appropriately, from the last part of Book VIII.
Augustine, Music And Human Goodness: A Commentary, Isaiah Jackson
Augustine, Music And Human Goodness: A Commentary, Isaiah Jackson
University of Dayton Review
What an extraordinary constellation these two fine scholars have described: from England to North Africa. via Paris and Milan; from the patristic era to the splendor of the Middle Ages; from rhythm to faith. via law and word and music, with the beneficent presence of Saint Augustine hovering over all.
Augustine’S Moral Thermometer Of Human Goodness, Raymond M. Herbenick
Augustine’S Moral Thermometer Of Human Goodness, Raymond M. Herbenick
University of Dayton Review
Can human goodness and evil be measured? Modern philosophers and those of antiquity have debated the mathematization of ethics generally and the measurement of human goodness and evil specifically.
An Evening With Augustine, Herbert Woodward Martin, Phillip Magnuson
An Evening With Augustine, Herbert Woodward Martin, Phillip Magnuson
University of Dayton Review
"Three Latin Hexameters: The Reflective Voice of Saint Augustine" (A Dramatic Reading)
Augustine’S Christian Humanism, Mary T. Clark
Augustine’S Christian Humanism, Mary T. Clark
University of Dayton Review
What are we to make of the opinion expressed by Herschel Baker in his study of the idea of human dignity, that Augustine held back humanism for centuries? This challenges, of course, the legitimacy of the title: "Augustine's Christian Humanism."
Will The Real Teacher Please Stand Up?, James R. Biddle
Will The Real Teacher Please Stand Up?, James R. Biddle
University of Dayton Review
Pedagogue's destination was the City of Wisdom. Although Mountains of Learning loomed ahead, she and Passive Pupils believed the Path of Teaching would lead them aright. However, the Slough of Schooling soon halted their progress. A cacophony of voices persuaded Pedagogue that a trail in the land of Reform would lead to The Path.
Introduction, Raymond M. Herbenick, Patricia A. Johnson
Introduction, Raymond M. Herbenick, Patricia A. Johnson
University of Dayton Review
The 21st Annual Philosophy Colloquium was a splendid success by all accounts. Funded by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Philosophy, and the Forum for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today, the program was lauded by guests and participants as "first-rate" and even "stunning. " It was listed by the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London as a significant meeting of international interest!
Dedication, University Of Dayton
Dedication, University Of Dayton
University of Dayton Review
Dedicated to the Memory of John Howard Crum
Mary And Woman In Augustine, Johann G. Roten S.M.
Mary And Woman In Augustine, Johann G. Roten S.M.
University of Dayton Review
"No woman ever set foot inside his house, he never spoke with a woman except in the presence of a third person or outside the parlor. He made no exceptions, not even for his own elder sister and his nieces, all three of them nuns." Thus speaks Possidius, a friend and fellow lodger, of Augustine's gameplan against women, and one German theologian was quick to remark that such "behavior would suggest that the man was psychologically disturbed " Was Augustine a sex-addict and misogynist, a woman hater because he first had been a sex slave? Both labels, misogyny and sexual …
Problems With “The Beginning” In Augustine’S Sixth Commentary On Genesis, Roland J. Teske
Problems With “The Beginning” In Augustine’S Sixth Commentary On Genesis, Roland J. Teske
University of Dayton Review
In 419 or 420 some Carthaginian Christians came upon an anonymous volume that was being read aloud in a square near the harbor and attracting an interested crowd of people. These concerned Christians sent the volume to Augustine and begged him to write a refutation of the work without delay. Hence, the bishop of Hippo wrote the two books of his Answer to an Enemy of the Law and the Prophets — one of Augustine's less well known works which has not yet been published in an English translation, but a work, I believe, well worth more attention. This paper …
On The Value Of History Of Theology And Philosophy, Daniel C. Fouke
On The Value Of History Of Theology And Philosophy, Daniel C. Fouke
University of Dayton Review
When I was asked to moderate this session I was told that I should make some comments for the purpose of stimulating discussion. This presented me with something of a dilemma, since I am no expert on Augustine. So, I thought that perhaps it would be most useful for me to prepare the way for the later discussion by reflecting on the general value of recovering past theological and philosophical positions. What do we learn or gain from such a project?
Ambrosian Vespers For The Feast Of The Conversion Of St. Augustine, Todd Ridder
Ambrosian Vespers For The Feast Of The Conversion Of St. Augustine, Todd Ridder
University of Dayton Review
When Dr. Raymond M. Herbenick approached me about the possibility of organizing a musical celebration to be part of the Colloquium on "Augustine on Human Goodness," I was drawn to the connection between Ambrose and Augustine in Milan, the site of Augustine's conversion. Even though the manuscript sources for the unique rite of Milan are relatively late (11th and 12th century), most scholars agree that the "Ambrosian" rite (and its chant) is of an ancient origin, although like "Gregorian" chant, its patron's impact was more spiritual than real. Even in its modem form, the Milanese rite reflects the influence that …
Where There’S A Will, There’S A Way: Augustine On The Good Will’S Origin And The Recta Uia Before 396, Marianne Djuth
Where There’S A Will, There’S A Way: Augustine On The Good Will’S Origin And The Recta Uia Before 396, Marianne Djuth
University of Dayton Review
In a memorable passage in Confessions I, Augustine ponders the significance of the delight he once experienced as a child upon hearing the story of Aeneas' wanderings and Dido's woeful demise brought about on account of her love for Aeneas. Viewed from the perspective of his youth, Augustine's recollection provides a glimpse into the powerful effect that this pagan narrative had on the development of his sense of self as a fourth century North African. Now, in the Confessions (401), as the older and wiser bishop of Hippo, Augustine laments the experience of delight that not only induced in him …
Commentaries On The Papers Of Marianne Djuth, Raymond Herbenick, And Theodore Kisiel, John Inglis
Commentaries On The Papers Of Marianne Djuth, Raymond Herbenick, And Theodore Kisiel, John Inglis
University of Dayton Review
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Heinrich Bölls “Brief An Einen Jungen Katholiken”: Seine Relevanz Fur Heute Undseine Rhetorische Struktur In Bezug Auf Aristoteles, Cicero Und Augustin Oder Boll Und Die Zweite Bundesrepublikanische Restauration, Robert C. Conard
University of Dayton Review
Die beste Kritik ist Selbstkritik. Das soil man nicht vergessen, wenn man aIs Gast in einem fremden Land vortnlgt und kritisch uber das Land spricht. Dieser Rat ist mir, wahrend ich hier spreche, keine Sekunde lang aus dem Gedachtnis entruckt. Es ist mir klar, daß die USA an ahnlichen Problemen leidet wie die, die ich erwahnen werde, und wenn Bolls "Brief an einenjungen Katholiken" Deutschen noch etwas zu sagen hat, dann auch anderen Zeitgenossen.
Welcome, James L. Heft S.M.
Welcome, James L. Heft S.M.
University of Dayton Review
As a proud graduate of the UD Philosophy Department in 1966, and someone who had the privilege of doing graduate studies in philosophy at Georgetown University under Thomas McTighe, Wilfred Desan, and Louis Dupre, I extend to all of you a very warm welcome to the University of Dayton and to this Symposium.
Creation, The Fall, And The Role Of The Will In St. Augustine’S De Civitate Dei, Books Xi-Xiv, Richard J. Dougherty
Creation, The Fall, And The Role Of The Will In St. Augustine’S De Civitate Dei, Books Xi-Xiv, Richard J. Dougherty
University of Dayton Review
St. Augustine devotes an extraordinary amount of effort in his writings to understanding and explaining what one is to learn from the dichotomy between pre- and post-Iapsarian man; in whole or in part, De Genesi ad litteram is given over to distinguishing between these two "states," as are the De Genesi contra Manichaeos and De Genesi ad litteram imperfectus liber, the last three books of the Confessiones, and the last twelve books of the De civitate Dei. The two aspects of the human condition which revolve around the question of the Fall find their embodiment in the two cities, the …
The Later Augustine’S Vision Of Human Society And The Public Discourse Today, Yong Huang
The Later Augustine’S Vision Of Human Society And The Public Discourse Today, Yong Huang
University of Dayton Review
Augustine scholars today radically disagree with each other on the practical implications of the later Augustine's vision of human society. Some find it uniquely exalting. For them, as R.A. Markus acclaims, "political Augustinianism" is, of its nature, politically radical. It is bound to be unremittingly critical of all and any human arrangements, any actual and even any imaginable forms of social order. Seen in an eschatological perspective. there can be no existing or possible society in which there is nothing to criticize" (Markus: 168-9). Others, however, find it especially depressing. For them, as Rosemary Radford Ruether complains, the later Augustine …
Ubi Lex? Robert Grosseteste’S Discussion Of Law, Letter, And Time And Its Musical Exemplification, Nancy Van Deusen
Ubi Lex? Robert Grosseteste’S Discussion Of Law, Letter, And Time And Its Musical Exemplification, Nancy Van Deusen
University of Dayton Review
Ubi interrogatio, ibi lex: Wherever you look the law is there, stated Augustine forcefully and clearly in his commentary to the fifty-seventh (58) Psalm, verse 2: Si vere utique iusticiam loquimini, recte iudicate, filii hominum. (Do ye indeed speak righteousness? Judge uprightly, O ye sons of men.) Augustine's commentary to this verse articulates a problem and an opposition. It is a powerful passage which sets forth a compelling picture of the fugitive, not from the law, but from his own heart. The conclusion to Augustine's discussion is simple and personal: to identify the law is to reinstate one's own person. …
Music’S Proper Place In Augustine’S De Musica , Marilyn Fischer
Music’S Proper Place In Augustine’S De Musica , Marilyn Fischer
University of Dayton Review
Augustine knew well the power of music. Remembering the days following his baptism, he writes, "The tears flowed from me when I heard your hymns and canticles, for the sweet singing of your Church moved me deeply. The music surged in my ears, truth seeped into my heart, and my feelings of devotion overflowed, so that the tears streamed down. But they were tears of gladness." Augustine writes how during a time of persecution, Ambrose introduced hymn and psalm singing to the church at Milan "to revive the flagging spirits of the people during their long and cheerless watch."
Augustine On The Possibility Of Human Goodness: The Theme Of Happiness Considered, David Neil Mosser
Augustine On The Possibility Of Human Goodness: The Theme Of Happiness Considered, David Neil Mosser
University of Dayton Review
Human goodness, as such, seems on the surface a contradiction in Augustine's thought since he sees the human condition as essentially bankrupt without the grace of God. I contend that the idea of human happiness is a vital component of any thorough understanding of Augustine's understanding of human existence which includes any possibility of human goodness. To that end, this paper examines Augustine's early dialogue The Happy Life, that he conceives and writes at Cassiciacum, and his Sermon 150 that he preaches twenty-seven or twenty-eight years later at North African Carthage. I suggest that the theme of happiness is fundamentally …