Rhetorical Economy in Augustine's Theology

Brian Gronewoller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-756655-8 (ISBN)

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Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430) studied and taught rhetoric for nearly two decades until, at the age of thirty-one, he left his position as professor of rhetoric in Milan to embark upon his new life as a Christian. This was not a clean break in Augustine's thought. Previous scholarship has done much to show us that Augustine integrated rhetorical ideas about texts and speeches into his thought on homiletics, the formation of arguments, and scriptural interpretation. Over the past few decades a new movement among scholars has begun to show that Augustine also carried rhetorical concepts into areas of his thought that were beyond the typical purview of the rhetorical handbooks.

In Rhetorical Economy in Augustine's Theology, Brian Gronewoller contributes to this new wave of scholarship by providing a detailed examination of Augustine's use of the rhetorical concept of economy in his theologies of creation, history, and evil, in order to gain insights into these fundamental aspects of his thought. This study finds that Augustine used rhetorical economy as the logic by which he explained a multitude of tensions within, and answered various challenges to, these three areas of his thought as well as others with which they intersect-including his understandings of providence, divine activity, and divine order.

Brian Gronewoller is Adjunct Professor of Early Christianity at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He also teaches spoken Latin at Hebron Christian Academy in Dacula, Georgia. His work on Augustine's theology has appeared in Augustinian Studies, Studia Patristica, and Vigiliae Christianae.

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Introduction

I. Foundations

1: Augustine's Use of Rhetorical Economy in His Scriptural Hermeneutic

2: Creation, History, and God's Activity as Speech

II. Creation, History, and Evil

3: Augustine's Use of Rhetorical Economy in his Theology of Creation

4: Augustine's Use of Rhetorical Economy in His Theology of History

5: Augustine's Use of Rhetorical Economy in His Theodicy

Epilogue: Ratio Ordinis Oeconomici

Appendix A: Primary Source Abbreviations (By English Title)
Appendix B: Primary Source Abbreviations (By Latin Abbreviation)
Appendix C: Primary Sources
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2021
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	239 x 160 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-756655-3 / 0197566553
ISBN-13	978-0-19-756655-8 / 9780197566558
Zustand	Neuware