Augustine and history
By: edited by Christopher T. Daly, John Doody, and Kim Paffenroth.
Contributors: Daly, Christopher T., 1960-; Doody, John, 1943-; Paffenroth, Kim, 1966-
Series: Augustine in conversation
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780739122709; 9780739122716
Subjects: Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo; History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Augustine's theory and practice of historiography; title: On the use and disadvantage of history for the afterlife / Peter Busch; title: History as witness : Augustine's interpretation of the history of Israel in Contra faustum and De trinitate / Kari Kloos; title: Augustine and the rhetoric of Roman decline / Andrew R. Murphy; title: Augustine's place in history; title: He promised much and did it all : Augustine and historians / James T. Carroll; title: Dissent and the death penalty : developing a comparative perspective / Joseph Prud'homme; title: The wage of sin is orthodoxy : the Confessions of Saint Augustine in Bayle's Dictionnaire / Ruth Whelan; title: Comparisons of Augustine and later historians; title: Augustine and Hegel on the history of Rome / Floy Doull and David Peddle; title: A true history of ourselves : Augustine, Carlyle, and the case for biography / Marylu Hill; title: Augustine and Ricoeur on the circle of time and narrative / Gregory Hoskins; title: Book 18 of The city of God, Bianchini's Universal history, and the New science of Vico / Harold Stone; title: Propaganda and the pornography of cataclysm : Augustine and Luigi Guicciardini's The sack of Rome / Paul R. Wright.