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Ian Clausen
Letter From the Editor
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David G. Hunter
Between Discipline and Doctrine:
Augustine’s Response to Clerical Misconduct
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This article explores a possible tension in Augustine’s thought between his response to the misconduct of clergy, which stressed swift discipline, and his anti-Donatist theology of sacraments, which emphasized the efficacy of sacraments apart from the moral worthiness of the clergy. I identify five principles that Augustine followed in his handling of clerical misconduct: 1) Decisive action that usually resulted in removal of the offenders from ministry; 2) concern for the rights of the victim over clerical privilege; 3) a just hearing for the accused clergyman; 4) concern for transparency in all proceedings; 5) personal accountability of the bishop for the behavior of his clergy. I conclude by noting several aspects of Augustine’s anti-Donatist ecclesiology and sacramental theology that help to resolve the apparent tension.
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Geoffrey D. Dunn
Boniface I, Augustine, and the Translation of Honorius to Caesarea Mauretaniae
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Augustine’s Epistulae 23A*, 23*, and 22*, written in late 419 and early 420, present his involvement in the dispute concerning the translation of Honorius to Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell), a city Augustine had visited in September 418 while fulfilling a commission from Zosimus of Rome. The translation of bishops from one church to another had been condemned by the 325 Council of Nicaea. The three letters are difficult to interpret because the information to his three correspondents (Possidius of Calama, Renatus, a monk of Caesarea Mauretaniae, and Alypius of Thagaste, who was in Italy at the time) seems to differ. A careful reading reveals that not only did Augustine’s knowledge of the situation change over time, but that the stress he placed on differing elements of that situation also changed depending upon the correspondent. The letters also disclose the involvement of Boniface I of Rome, Zosimus’ successor, and the complex relationship of the African churches with the bishop of Rome, especially in the matter of judicial appeal. What is suggested here is that Augustine, without saying so, seemed to be aware of the criteria Boniface had employed in another translation controversy, which was the approved translation of Perigenes as bishop of Corinth, and that, if applied to Honorius, this would lead the Roman bishop to reach a very different conclusion.
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Thomas Clemmons
De Genesi Aduersus Manicheos:
Augustine’s Anthropology and the Fall of the Soul
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This article examines Augustine’s early anthropology, particularly through De Genesi aduersus Manichaeos. The most thorough treatment of this topic is found in the enduring work of Robert J. O’Connell, SJ. O’Connell argues that Augustine drew directly from the Enneads in De Genesi aduersus Manichaeos to formulate his anthropology. This article evaluates and critiques the evidence and implications of O’Connell’s position concerning Augustine’s articulation of the “fall of the soul.” I argue that an attentive text-based reading of De Genesi aduersus Manichaeos reveals the shortcomings of O’Connell’s “Plotinian” rendering of Augustine’s anthropology. More importantly, I show that De Genesi aduersus Manichaeos illuminates dimensions of Augustine’s anthropology often overlooked. These include the human’s transformation to spiritalis through Christ and the eschatological configuration of the caeleste corpus. In contrast to O’Connell’s theory, which emphasizes the necessary “circularity” of Augustine’s anthropological framework (that is, the soul “returns” to a condition identical to the aboriginal state), I argue that in De Genesi aduersus Manichaeos Augustine advances an anthropology that is not merely “circular.”
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Doug Clapp
The Challenge of Augustine’s Epistula 151
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Epistula 151 shows Augustine trying to exert pressure on a high-ranking imperial official from his position outside of the senatorial elite. The aristocrat Caecilianus had written a letter, now lost, chastising Augustine for his lack of correspondence. Augustine’s reply begins and ends according to typical epistolary conventions. The heart of the letter, however, narrates Augustine’s harrowing experience of the arrest and execution of the brothers Marcellinus and Apringius by the imperial commander Marinus. The profound spiritual contrast between villain and victims has the potential to damage Caecilianus’s reputation, forcing him into a corner. He can only agree with Augustine and act accordingly.
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Paul M. Blowers
Craig Allert, Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation
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Toni Alimi
Augustine, Confessions. Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Thomas Williams
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Jérôme Lagouanère
Jaime García Álvarez, OSA, Une seule âme et un seul cœur en Dieu. Vivre en communauté à la lumière de saint Augustin
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Miles Beckwith
Augustine, De Civitate Dei: The City of God, Books XIII & XIV; Augustine, De Civitate Dei: The City of God, Books XV & XVI. Edited with an introduction and commentary by P. G. Walsh
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Andrew C. Chronister
Ali Bonner, The Myth of Pelagianism
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David A. Hollinger
Elizabeth A. Clark, The Fathers Refounded: Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, and the Teaching of Ancient Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America
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Jonathan D. Teubner
Anthony Dupont, Shari Boodts, Gert Partoens, and Johan Leemans, eds. Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, and Audiences in the Latin West
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Thomas McNulty
Douglas Finn, Life in the Spirit: Trinitarian Grammar and Pneumatic Community in Hegel and Augustine
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Erik Kenyon
Michael P. Foley, translation and commentary, On the Happy Life
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Collin Garbarino
Stefana Dan Laing, Retrieving History: Memory and Identity Formation in the Early Church
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John Peter Kenney
Jonathan D. Teubner, Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition
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Frederick Van Fleteren
A. Zumkeller, Das Mönchtum des Heiligen Augustinus
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