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Augustiniana 65(2015)1-5
Introduction
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This article offers a new critical edition of ss. 182 and 183 preceded by a status quaestionis on the date of the sermons, a brief introduction on their direct and indirect transmission and an account of the principles governing the critical text.
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The purpose of the paper is to examine an allegorical interpretation of Genesis in Book Eleven of the Confessions in terms of spiritual exercise and contemplation. Augustine continues the Alexandrian tradition of allegorical exegesis, understood as a movement from the material 'letter' towards the immaterial 'spirit'. The study of the Scripture, however, is not a merely discursive activity of the intellect, generating as much as possible different allegorical meanings of the text, but a spiritual exercise and a prayerful activity establishing a relationship and dialogue with God. Augustine uses the biblical metaphor of the feeding deer to describe a three stage process of going from reading through meditation to contemplation. He also suggests six activities that are involved in this exercise, two of which constitute each of the three levels (recipere et resumere, ambulare et pascere, recumbere et ruminare). This exercise culminates in an experience of contemplation, described as the intimate presence of the Word as the Bridegroom.
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Augustine - spiritual exercise - contemplation - allegorical exegesis
Continuing the connection between Heidegger and Augustine concerning chaste and servile fear from his earlier article entitled 'Following Heidegger’s Footnotes to Augustine on Timor Castus and Timor Seruilis', de Paulo brings his 'Augustinian phenomenology' into play by engaging in dialogue with Jean-Luc Marion and questions whether Heidegger’s re-appropriation of Augustine is philosophically credible or does Heidegger’s reading of Augustine also need some deconstructing? Then, with an analysis of Augustine’s seventeen citations from the First Letter of St. John, the article explores Augustine’s ambiguous convergence of love and fear.
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Augustine - Heidegger - timor - amor - First Letter of St. John
This essay seeks to analyze and compare several prominent early modern Catholic biblical commentaries on the question of grace, free will and predestination and the role in which the Church fathers had in shaping their approach. By comparing the commentaries of Franciscus Toletus, Cornelius Jansen (of Ghent), Thomas Stapleton, Guilielmus Estius, and Cornelius a Lapide on the fall of Judas in John 17:12, I hope to shed light on a neglected area in the history of exegesis. The paper will be structured as follows: first, I will provide a brief introduction and an explanation for including these five particular figures in the essay; second, I will discuss the three key patristic sources for the scholars of this era, viz. Cyril of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, and Augustine; and third, the paper will introduce the figures and analyze select passages of their commentaries that discuss the fall of Judas in John 17:12, while also paying attention to the role Augustine (and other auctoritates) play in the argumentation. Finally, some general conclusions will be drawn about grace, free will, and predestination among Catholic biblical commentaries in the Early Modern period and also the influence of Augustine on Catholic exegetes on this topic.
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Early Modern Catholicism - Augustine - Judas - grace - free will - predestination - Franciscus Toletus - Thomas Stapleton - Cornelius Jansen - Guilelmus Estius - Cornelius a Lapide
This paper compares the understanding of nature, will, and the Fall in Augustine and Maximus the Confessor, and finds their accounts to be identical on most points of substance, if not always in the terminology used to express these points. On several points, they agree with each other against both Eastern and Western accounts as traditionally conceived. Given that these figures are often regarded as paradigmatic for Western and Eastern traditions of Christianity, respectively, this points to a need for a more nuanced account of the unity and divergences within and between Eastern and Western Christian traditions than that given to present.
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Augustine - Maximus the Confessor - human nature - will - the Fall - Original Sin - guilt
The article is a detailed discussion of the concept of delectation as it appears in the Augustinus. The use of this concept by Jansenius seems to support the accusation, raised by Fénelon and seconded by Henri Bremond, that Jansenism is essentially an Epicureanism. However, the article shows that the idea of delectation might well be compatible with some notion of unselfish love. In the first part, it is noted how Jansenius, like Augustine, uses 'delectation' as synonymous with a passion overriding free will. In the second part, it is shown how, at the same time, the word is used to express the centre of the will or what makes it truly voluntary. In the third part, it is argued that, while the concept is not a sign of hedonism, it also is not simply a metaphor. It is shown instead that love-as-delectation is regularly conceived of as a thoroughly disinterested affection. In this manner, the article suggests that the concept of delectation may tell us something important about the possibility of imagining a love that is at once passionate and unselfish. It hints that the ambiguity of the Augustinus concerning the nature of love may be that of almost the entire Catholic tradition prior to Fénelon.
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Jansenius - Fénelon - délectation - déterminisme et libre arbitre - amour pur
- Peter SANLON, Listening to Augustine's Sermons Afresh. Augustiniana 65(2015)1-2 : 7-10
Introduction
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- Shari BOODTS, Augustine's Sermones ad populum 182-183. Augustiniana 65(2015)1-2 : 11-42
This article offers a new critical edition of ss. 182 and 183 preceded by a status quaestionis on the date of the sermons, a brief introduction on their direct and indirect transmission and an account of the principles governing the critical text.
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- Alicia EELEN, Les sermons 182-183 d'Augustin. Augustiniana 65(2015) : 43-80
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- Matthew KNOTTS, The Neoplatonic Background of Augustine's Christology in Sermo 182. Augustiniana 65(2015)1-2 : 81-104
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- Johannes VAN OORT, Augustine on Manichaeism in His Sermo 182. Augustiniana 65(2015)1-2 : 105-114
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- Geert VAN REYN; Anthony DUPONT, Why Donatists and Pelagians Really Deny that Christ Has Come in the Flesh. Augustiniana 65(2015)1-2 : 115-140
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- STRÓŻYŃSKI, Mateusz, Allegorical Exegesis as Spiritual Exercise in Book Eleven of Augustine's Confessions. Augustiniana 65(2015)3-4 : 141-167
The purpose of the paper is to examine an allegorical interpretation of Genesis in Book Eleven of the Confessions in terms of spiritual exercise and contemplation. Augustine continues the Alexandrian tradition of allegorical exegesis, understood as a movement from the material 'letter' towards the immaterial 'spirit'. The study of the Scripture, however, is not a merely discursive activity of the intellect, generating as much as possible different allegorical meanings of the text, but a spiritual exercise and a prayerful activity establishing a relationship and dialogue with God. Augustine uses the biblical metaphor of the feeding deer to describe a three stage process of going from reading through meditation to contemplation. He also suggests six activities that are involved in this exercise, two of which constitute each of the three levels (recipere et resumere, ambulare et pascere, recumbere et ruminare). This exercise culminates in an experience of contemplation, described as the intimate presence of the Word as the Bridegroom.
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Augustine - spiritual exercise - contemplation - allegorical exegesis
- Craig J.N., DE PAULO, 'o Love that Casts Out Fear' : More on Augustine's Influence of Heidegger Concerning timor castus and timor servilis. Augustiniana 65(2015)3-4 : 169-183
Continuing the connection between Heidegger and Augustine concerning chaste and servile fear from his earlier article entitled 'Following Heidegger’s Footnotes to Augustine on Timor Castus and Timor Seruilis', de Paulo brings his 'Augustinian phenomenology' into play by engaging in dialogue with Jean-Luc Marion and questions whether Heidegger’s re-appropriation of Augustine is philosophically credible or does Heidegger’s reading of Augustine also need some deconstructing? Then, with an analysis of Augustine’s seventeen citations from the First Letter of St. John, the article explores Augustine’s ambiguous convergence of love and fear.
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Augustine - Heidegger - timor - amor - First Letter of St. John
- Luke MURRAY, The Church Fathers and the Fall of Judas : Grace, Predestination and Free Will among Early Modern catholic Biblical Commentaries. Augustiniana 65(2015)3-4 : 185-203
This essay seeks to analyze and compare several prominent early modern Catholic biblical commentaries on the question of grace, free will and predestination and the role in which the Church fathers had in shaping their approach. By comparing the commentaries of Franciscus Toletus, Cornelius Jansen (of Ghent), Thomas Stapleton, Guilielmus Estius, and Cornelius a Lapide on the fall of Judas in John 17:12, I hope to shed light on a neglected area in the history of exegesis. The paper will be structured as follows: first, I will provide a brief introduction and an explanation for including these five particular figures in the essay; second, I will discuss the three key patristic sources for the scholars of this era, viz. Cyril of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, and Augustine; and third, the paper will introduce the figures and analyze select passages of their commentaries that discuss the fall of Judas in John 17:12, while also paying attention to the role Augustine (and other auctoritates) play in the argumentation. Finally, some general conclusions will be drawn about grace, free will, and predestination among Catholic biblical commentaries in the Early Modern period and also the influence of Augustine on Catholic exegetes on this topic.
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Early Modern Catholicism - Augustine - Judas - grace - free will - predestination - Franciscus Toletus - Thomas Stapleton - Cornelius Jansen - Guilelmus Estius - Cornelius a Lapide
- Jacob ARCHAMBAULT, TNature, Will, and the Fall in Augustine and Maximus the Confessor. Augustiniana 65(2015)3-4 : 205-230
This paper compares the understanding of nature, will, and the Fall in Augustine and Maximus the Confessor, and finds their accounts to be identical on most points of substance, if not always in the terminology used to express these points. On several points, they agree with each other against both Eastern and Western accounts as traditionally conceived. Given that these figures are often regarded as paradigmatic for Western and Eastern traditions of Christianity, respectively, this points to a need for a more nuanced account of the unity and divergences within and between Eastern and Western Christian traditions than that given to present.
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Augustine - Maximus the Confessor - human nature - will - the Fall - Original Sin - guilt
- Kenneth BERG, Le jansénisme est-il un épicurisme? La "délectation" dans l'Augustinus. Augustiniana 65(2015)3-4 : 231-246
The article is a detailed discussion of the concept of delectation as it appears in the Augustinus. The use of this concept by Jansenius seems to support the accusation, raised by Fénelon and seconded by Henri Bremond, that Jansenism is essentially an Epicureanism. However, the article shows that the idea of delectation might well be compatible with some notion of unselfish love. In the first part, it is noted how Jansenius, like Augustine, uses 'delectation' as synonymous with a passion overriding free will. In the second part, it is shown how, at the same time, the word is used to express the centre of the will or what makes it truly voluntary. In the third part, it is argued that, while the concept is not a sign of hedonism, it also is not simply a metaphor. It is shown instead that love-as-delectation is regularly conceived of as a thoroughly disinterested affection. In this manner, the article suggests that the concept of delectation may tell us something important about the possibility of imagining a love that is at once passionate and unselfish. It hints that the ambiguity of the Augustinus concerning the nature of love may be that of almost the entire Catholic tradition prior to Fénelon.
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Jansenius - Fénelon - délectation - déterminisme et libre arbitre - amour pur