Augustine and history / edited by Christopher T. Daly, John Doody, and Kim Paffenroth.

Other author Daly, Christopher T., 1960-
Other author Doody, John, 1943-
Other author Paffenroth, Kim, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2008.
Descriptionxiii, 326 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAugustine in conversation
Augustine in conversation. ^A596130
Contents Augustine's theory and practice of historiography -- On the use and disadvantage of history for the afterlife / Peter Busch -- History as witness : Augustine's interpretation of the history of Israel in Contra faustum and De trinitate / Kari Kloos -- Augustine and the rhetoric of Roman decline / Andrew R. Murphy -- Augustine's place in history -- He promised much and did it all : Augustine and historians / James T. Carroll -- Dissent and the death penalty : developing a comparative perspective / Joseph Prud'homme -- The wage of sin is orthodoxy : the Confessions of Saint Augustine in Bayle's Dictionnaire / Ruth Whelan -- Comparisons of Augustine and later historians -- Augustine and Hegel on the history of Rome / Floy Doull and David Peddle -- A true history of ourselves : Augustine, Carlyle, and the case for biography / Marylu Hill -- Augustine and Ricoeur on the circle of time and narrative / Gregory Hoskins -- Book 18 of The city of God, Bianchini's Universal history, and the New science of Vico / Harold Stone -- Propaganda and the pornography of cataclysm : Augustine and Luigi Guicciardini's The sack of Rome / Paul R. Wright.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 295-312) and index.
LCCN 2007028343
ISBN9780739122709 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0739122703 (coth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780739122716 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0739122711 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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