History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination
New Essays on Augustine's City of God
Mark Vessey, Karla Pollmann, & Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A., Editors
This volume contains the select proceedings of the conference, "History,
Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
on Augustine's City of God, which was held at the University of
British Columbia in September 1998. Historians, theologians, and literary
scholars from North America, Europe, and Japan joined in a cross-disciplinary
exploration of Augustine's most challenging encyclopedic work, its contexts
in Late Antiquity, and its long-term impact on Western culture.
The collection includes contributions by Neil B. McLynn on Augustine's Roman Empire; Gerard
J. P. O'Daly on Cicero's Republic in the City of God; Philippe Bruggisser
on Augustine and Servius; J. Kevin Coyle on the Book of Revelation in
the City of God and Augustine's Preaching; Paul B. Harvey, Jr. on Augustine
and Tyconius; Virginia Burrus on the Apocalyptic Feast; Joanna Vecchiarelli
Scott and Peter J. Burnell on Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt as readers
of Augustine; Michael Hollerich on Augustine; and John Milbank and the
"Secular.". The collection was originally
published as Volume 30, Number 2 of the journal Augustinian Studies.
"Dieses Buch ist eine wahre Fundgrube für alle, die sich mit Älterer Kirchengeschichte,
römischer Geschichte, Rezeption der klassischen antiken Literatur, Exegese des Neuen
Testaments ... , englischer und amerikanischer Geschichte, politischer Philosophie und
Augustin-Rezeption bei Heidegger und Arendt befassen." - Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum (2004).
"This book .... is a gem for scholars and would be excellent for a specialist
course on The City of God or for post-graduates. The questions
that it raises and the arguments put forth are provocative and interesting.
They engage the reader even when one wants to dispute an argument." -
Church History (June 2001).
"Current interest in the City of God is well served by this volume.
The essays feature a congruence in acumen and depth of erudition often
lacking in collections of this sort." - Journal of Early Christian
Studies (December 2000).
· ISBN 1-889680-04-4 · ISBN-13 978-1-889680-04-0 · Published November 1999 · Hardbound · 340 pages ·
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