The article is a chronicle of the colloquium about St. Augustine’s Sermones ad Populum on the New Testament, held in the Academia Belgica of Rome on September 15-17, 2011. It makes an overview of all the papers presented at the colloquium, and underlines their contribution to the Augustinian Studies.

Augustine gives such importance to the memory, that it has a role even in the soul of the saints in Heaven. The article deals with the polemics that Augustine had with the Platonic philosophers (sapientes gentium), after analyzing some texts in which this topic is presented (trin. 14,5; ciu. 10,30; 22,30; y. 240,4; 241, 4-5), since the Platonic philosophers believed in a short vita beata, since the soul has forgotten her past life and must return to the world and take flesh in a body. It deals also with the sources of this ideas, whether they come from Porphyry (regr. an.) or most probably from Plotinus (Enn. 4, 3 [27]; 4, 4 [28]).

In his sermones ad populum, Augustine seems to provide us with very little concrete information about the social realities of wealth and poverty. This article aims at examining that information in order to comment on how important the social issue of poverty was to Augustine.

In the first part of this article, with the help of several elements of Pelagius’ commentary on the Romans, the author checks whether and in which degree Pelagius is a moralist and/or an theologian. The second part of the article, focuses on the theology of Pelagius’ commentary on the Romans, trying to answer the question: can we establish orthodoxy or not? The article is restricted to the early Pelagius: the Pelagius, before the controversy that made him notorious in western theology.

The article deals with the presentation that Augustine makes in his works of the events that were presented in the amphitheater, underlining the people that went to those events and Augustine’s idea of them. It also presents the figure of the gladiators, what do they represent for Augustine, and how he uses this figure for a cathequetical purpose within his sermons.

The objective of this article is to show Augustine's dependence on the traditional tropus-system throughout and the continuity between his exegetical practise and his hermeneutical theory.

The article presents the historical foundations of Donatism. It examines the beginnings of Donatist Christianity, especially during the Great Persecution of 303-305 and more formally in 311/12 with the election of Caecilian. It also highlights the interaction between Donatist partisans and Constantine and his successors, illustrating the events surrounding the reign of Emperor Julian and the innovations that Donatism engendered in the closing decades of the fourth century, with particular attention given to the role of the Circumcellion movement and the militant regime of Gildo. Finally, it reports the developments that occurred in the opening decades of the fifth century which involved Augustine of Hippo and the joint-effort of Roman Catholic and Roman Imperial authorities to suppress the Donatist Church.

In this article the author first examines Augustine’s bilateral commitment to the explanation of a literal exegesis in his works. Next he explores Augustine’s way of exposition in Gn. litt. imp., finally arguing the significance of his first literal interpretation.

The article deals with Augustine’s Just War theory, considering him as the founder of Just War theory because he was the first to articulate the perennial criteria within the framework of the Christian ethos of love and equality as human beings made in the image and likeness of the Creator. It deals also with Augustine’s influence in the development of the Just War theory.

The article deals with the ways in which saint Augustine's preaching can supplement or revise scholarly interpretation of the Augustine’s theology and ideas, and also the ideas about his listeners.

The article deals with a fragment of a letter of Priscillian quoted in Paul Orosius’ Commonitorium de errore priscillianistarum et origenistarum, trying to replace the fragment in an orosian context. It also deals with the relationship that the fragment of the letter has with the priscillian sources, such as the so called 'Wurzburg’s Treatises’ and the ideas of E.-Ch. Babut and E. Spät.

The article deals with the sense that disciplina has in Augustine’s early writings, as a term that refers to a theoretical science or method of study, particularly in the context of Augustine’s theory of the liberal arts.

The article deals with Augustine’s point of view on words’ eloquence in human communication, since its foundation is in Christ, the living Word. It also deals with the importance and meaning that St. Augustine gives to that Word.