Augustine on Memory

Kevin G. Grove (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

278 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-758721-8 (ISBN)

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Augustine of Hippo, indisputably one of the most important figures for the study of memory, is credited with establishing memory as the inner source of selfhood and locus of the search for God. Yet, those who study memory in Augustine have never before taken into account his preaching. His sermons are the sources of memory's greatest development for Augustine. In Augustine's preaching, especially on the Psalms, the interior gives way to communal exterior. Both the self and search for God are re-established in a shared Christological identity and the communal labors of remembering and forgetting.

This book opens with Augustine's early works and Confessions as the beginning of memory and concludes with Augustine's Trinity and preaching on Psalm 50 as the end of memory. The heart of the book, the work of memory, sets forth how ongoing remembering and forgetting in Christ are for Augustine are foundational to the life of grace. To that end, Augustine and his congregants go leaping in memory together, keep festival with abiding traces, and become forgetful runners like St. Paul. Remembering and forgetting in Christ, the ongoing work of memory, prove for Augustine to be actions of reconciliation of the distended experiences of human life-of praising and groaning, labouring and resting, solitude and communion. Augustine on Memory presents this new communal and Christological paradigm not only for Augustinian studies, but also for theologians, philosophers, ethicists, and interdisciplinary scholars of memory.

Kevin G. Grove is Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He studies memory in historical and systematic theology. A priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Grove previously undertook postdoctoral research at L'Institut Catholique de Paris and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge.

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Abbreviations

Introduction: My Most Intimate Interior or "Stuck in the Self"?

Part 1: The Beginning of Memory

Chapter 1: Preparing to Preach: Memory, Self, and Christ

Chapter 2: Preaching from the Whole: The Self in Christ

Part 2: The Work of Memory

Chapter 3: Learning to Leap: Memory as Shared Exercise

Chapter 4: The Work of Remembering

Chapter 5: The Work of Forgetting

Chapter 6: The Work of Memory: The Life of Grace

Part 3: The End of Memory

Chapter 7: Transitus and Trinity

Chapter 8: Psalm 50 in Augustine's Life and Death

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Erscheinungsdatum	13.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 238 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-758721-6 / 0197587216
ISBN-13	978-0-19-758721-8 / 9780197587218
Zustand	Neuware