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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Augustine of Hippo"”.
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Augustine of Hippo: On Justification by Faith
<p>This study aims to retrieve Augustine of Hippo’s view of ‘justification by faith’ from his theological writings from the 390s to the end of his career. Significant sources are his early, unfinished commentaries on Paul’s letters to the Romans and his completed commentary on Galatians. In these, …
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Eloquent Wisdom: The Role of Rhetoric and Delight in the Theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo
This study examines Augustine’s conception of the role of delight (delectatio) in the divine acts of creation and redemption. In the first part of the dissertation, I argue that Augustine, who was trained as a rhetor and taught rhetoric before his conversion, came to conceive of theology as the …
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The False Self and True Self: A Christian Perspective
The aim of this study, as explained in the first chapter, is to synthesize insights from Christianity and secular psychology in order to answer four questions: (1) Why do people reflect upon themselves? (2) Why do they understand themselves wrongly (i.e., constructing a false self)? (3) What does …
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Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages
… explores the utopian and dystopian tones of apocalypticism in medieval secular literature and how literary authors treated the end of time. Beginning with two different representational models of medieval apocalyptic, notably those of St Augustine of Hippo and of Joachim of Fiore, this …
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Whalelight: A Sounding
… preface, the author attempts the first formation of an epistemological definition/description of <em>weird</em> within a literary contexts as well as the experience of weirdness itself. It analyzes works by authors Dennis Johnson and William Golding, among others, as well as number of …
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Augustine's incarnational hermeneutics and postmodernity
This thesis focuses on the hermeneutic framework of St. Augustine of Hippo. Study of this topic has been suggested by patrologists such as Frances Young, and garnered occasional glances in contemporary scholarship. Little has been done as far as a systematic treatment of Augustine’s theory of …
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Amidst the Trees: Encountering the Arboreal in Late Antiquity
… knowledge to such an extent that articulations of salvation, nature, pleasure, and identity can no longer be considered solely mental or anthropic. The arboreal helped these notions take root. By examining different modes of arboreal practice, such as grafting, harvesting, and felling, and how …
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Resurrecting the martyrs: the role of the Cult of the Saints, A.D. 370-430
… actively sought to reimagine the persecutions of the pre-Constantinian era by keeping the memory of the martyrs alive. The cult of martyrs became one tool for navigating present difficulties and establishing a source of legitimacy. As a valuable connection with the past, the cult of martyrs …
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Gender and religion in the Phoenix
… depicting the life, death and resurrection of the mythical phoenix bird, complete with a religious commentary at the end. The authorship of the poem has been the subject of many critical works, with the poem being ascribed to Cynewulf by some critics based on the lexis. Many have objected to …
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A Study of Three Related Versions of the Medieval Exemplum "The Incestuous Daughter"
… since the late 19th century, three versions of the medieval religious exemplum "The Incestuous Daughter" offer a glimpse into medieval England' s ideas about sexuality and religion. The evaluation of the variation in language among the three versions, as well as a comparison of the usage of …
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Against Lying: Some Historical Arguments in Favor of Moral Absolutism
<p>Beginning with Augustine of Hippo, an unbroken lineage of philosophical arguments has been in place supporting an absolutist prohibition against all lies, a lineage that has often been referred to as the absolutist `tradition' against lying. This paper explores this so-called tradition by first …
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Theology as Improvisation: Using the Musical Metaphor of Attunement to Think Theologically
… project places itself within the tradition of Christian theology which has sought to think about its thinking of God. In so doing, the tradition has seen it necessary to do this thinking in light of one's contemporary situation. Thus, this project carries this line of thought through by …
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The Relationship of the So-Called Semi-Pelagians and Eastern Greek Theology on the Doctrine of Original Sin: An Historical-Systematic Analysis and its Relevance for 21st Century Protestantism.
The theological study of the so-called Semi-Pelagianshas been minimal relative to the study of Augustine of Hippo. Nevertheless, the monks hailing from the southern portion of Roman Gaul were the first critical respondents to Augustine’s doctrine of grace, providing an important perspective for …
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Is Everybody Doing It? Marital Celibacy in the Cappadocians and Augustine
… scholarship on marital celibacy has all too often read later practices of marital celibacy into earlier texts, due to scholars' tendency to universalize ascetic practice. This study endeavors to dismantle such universalizing by demonstrating the differences among four church fathers' …
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The idea of creation in Plato, Augustine, and Emil Brunner
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the views of creation that Plato, Augustine, and Brunner advance to deal with problems involved in God's relation to the world. Divine craftsmanship seems to be the model in Plato's view of creation. His view of Pattern, Demiurgos, and Receptacle are …
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Evil, Ontology, and Scripture: A Diachronic Analysis of Augustine of Hippo's Privatio Boni Concept
<p>Augustine of Hippo’s Privatio Boni concept—the idea that evil is not a substance, but the privation of good in a substance—is the most influential early systematic theodical attempt within Christianity to exculpate a good God from responsibility for evil. By approaching Privatio Boni as the …
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Medieval Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Teaching with and about Signs in Several Didactic Genres
This dissertation explores the central place of semiotic interpretation in the instruction of several medieval genres--Latin and vernacular religious drama, French fabliaux, and Spanish exempla--encompassing both the lesson that is taught and the method for teaching it. It is my contention that …
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A Constructive Theology of Truth as a Divine Name with Reference to the Bible and Augustine
This study is a work of constructive theology that retrieves the ancient Christian understanding of God as truth for contemporary theological discourse and points to its relevance to biblical studies and philosophy of religion. The contribution is threefold: first, the thesis introduces a novel …