By Karla Pollmann, Meredith J. Gill
ISBN-10: 9004222138
ISBN-13: 9789004222137
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is arguably the main influential philosopher and Latin writer of the Early Christian interval. His frequent legacy has been explored up to now basically partially, and principally with recognize to his textual reception. This interdisciplinary quantity makes an attempt to redress this emphasis with a suite of analyses of Augustine's influence within the visible arts, drama, devotional practices, tune, the science-faith debate and psychotherapy. The integrated reports hint difficult and infrequently astounding situations of Augustine's ubiquitous presence in highbrow, non secular and creative phrases. the result's a much more differentiated and dynamic photograph of the mechanisms during which the legacy of an old determine will be perpetuated, together with the occasionally supra-rational and inventive dimensions of transmission.
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Articulation in another medium allows for the conjoining of new elements, and these, in turn, may widen, alter, modernize, individualize, politicize or polarize his original intent. This not only applies to the visual arts and music but also to devotional media such as sermons and meditative texts. The latter still deserve substantially more scholarly attention in this respect; this is also true for the vast and complex field of Pseudo-Augustinian writings. Moreover, it is premature at this stage to presume that we can establish a pattern indicating which of Augustine’s texts or which of his preoccupations occur more frequently in any given medium or context.
The external visualization mirrors and displays the materially less tangible intellectual status of Christianity which it finally managed to achieve. The Immediacy of Spiritual Authority: Life Cycles of Augustine Life cycles of Augustine became popular from the fourteenth century onwards. 35 The initial appearance of such cycles can be connected to the rise of the Order of Hermits of St. 37 These cycles could serve various, partly overlapping functions: (i) to commemorate their founder, (ii) to compete with other orders, especially the Canons of St.
His mother arrives a bit later in Milan, immediately reveres Ambrose and listens to his sermons in church, but without Augustine (conf. 1), while Ambrose in conf. 2 congratulates Augustine for having such a devout Christian as his mother. The artist of the Jerusalem altarpiece is keen to suggest that this stage, so crucial for Augustine’s development towards Christianity, is an experience shared between mother and son. The inner, emotional and spiritual concern that Monica had for her son is here externalized in her physical and spatial companionship with him, suitably located in a church building as the proper destination for Christian paraenetics and protreptic.
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