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BIBLIOGRAPHY #6: Augustine & the Latin West

I. AUGUSTINE: BIOGRAPHIES & SURVEYS

Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: a Biography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968) paperback, $13.

Start here. This is certainly the best biography of Augustine—written with masterful insight and in
masterful prose. Brown’s gift is to bring alive all the richly human tensions and depths of Augustine’s
personality and world.

Allan Fitzgerald, ed., Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999)

hardcover, $75. NEW. This major new reference work is to be published in summer, 1999, and will offer
articles on a wide range of topics relevant to Augustine’s life and thought. A good place to start one’s
research.

Gerald Bonner, St. Augustine: His Life and Controversies (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 1986; reprint: Morehouse

Publishing Co., 1995) paperback, $30. A valuable one-volume study of Augustine’s theology. Bonner
devotes much space to Augustine’s opponents—Manichees, Donatists, & Pelagians—so that one has a vivid
sense of the context of Augustine’s thinking. It opens with a good summary biography.

Henry Chadwick, Augustine, Past Masters (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986) paperback, $7. The best

brief study of Augustine’s thought.

Mary T. Clark, Augustine, Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1994)

paperback, $18. Excellent overview.

Henri Marrou, Saint Augustine and his influence through the ages, trans., Patrick Hepburn-Scott (New York:

Harper, 1957) reprinted in Everett Ferguson, ed., Personalities of the Early Church (New York: Garland
Publishing, 1993).

Cornelius Mayer, ed., Augustinus-Lexikon (Basel: Sckwabe & Co. AG, Verlag Publishers, 1994). Vol. 1: Aaron-

Conuersio. The first volume of what will be a massive encyclopedia on Augustine. Articles are in either
English, French, or German. See the article by Gerald Bonner, “Augustinus (uita),” pp. 519-550.

James J. O’Donnell, Augustine, Twayne World Authors #759 (New York: Macmillan, 1985) hardcover, $25.
Agostino Trapè, “Saint Augustine,” in Patrology, Volume 4, The Golden Age of Latin Patristic Literature from the

Council of Nicea to the Council of Chalcedon, ed. Angelo DiBerardino (Westminster, MD: Christian
Classics, 1986) pp. 342-462.. A valuable bibliography and overview.

2. AUGUSTINE: ESSAYS ON HIS LIFE & THOUGHT. For essays on Augustine, see especially the major
journals: Augustinian Studies (Villanova), Revue des études augustiniennes (Paris) and Recherches augustiniennes
(Paris). Over the last decade, Augustinian scholars have published a number of collections of first-class essays. See
especially the following:

Gerald Bonner, God’s Decree and Man’s Destiny: Studies in the Thought of Augustine of Hippo (London: Variorum

Reprints, 1987).

Gerald Bonner, Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition: Augustine, Pelagianism and Early Christian

Northumbria (London: Variorum Reprints, 1996) hardback, $90.

Bernard Bruning, ed., Collectanea Augustiniana: Mélanges T.J. van Bavel, 2 volumes (Louvain: Leuven University

Press, 1990).

Fannie LeMoine & Christopher Kleinhenz, eds., Saint Augustine the Bishop: a Book of Essays (New York: Garland

Publishing, 1994) hardcover.

Joseph T. Lienhard, Earl C. Muller, & Roland J. Teske, eds., Augustine: Presbyter Factus Sum, Collectanea

Augustiniana (New York: Peter Lang, 1993) hardcover, $70.

R.A. Markus, Sacred and Secular: Studies on Augustine and Latin Christianity (London: Variorum Reprints, 1994)

hardcover.

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Joseph C. Schnaubelt & Frederick Van Fleteren, ed., Augustine: Second Founder of the Faith, Collectanea

Augustiniana (New York: Peter Lang, 1990) hardcover, $70.

Joseph C. Schnaubelt & Frederick Van Fleteren, ed., Augustine in Iconography : History and Legend, Augustinian

Historical Institute Series, vol. 4 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999) hardcover, $85. NEW; to be
available in September.

Frederick Van Fleteren, Joseph C. Schnaubelt, & Joseph Reino, eds., Augustine: Mystic and Mystagogue,

Collectanea Augustiniana (New York: Peter Lang, 1994) hardcover, $70.

Augustinus Magister: Congrès International augustinien, 3 volumes (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1954). Dated,

but a landmark collection of essays.

3. THE CONFESSIONS: STUDIES

James O’Donnell, ed., Augustine: Confessions, 3 volumes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) hardcover,

$80 per volume. Volume 1 has the Latin text of the Confessions, while volumes 2 and 3 are a paragraph-
by-paragraph commentary. A gold mine of information, and full of fine insights into the text, but one needs
to know Latin to follow things.

Gillian Clark, Saint Augustine: The Confessions, Landmarks of World Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1993) paperback, $10. A simple but excellent introduction to the historical background and the
themes of Augustine’s Confessions. A good place to start.

Pierre P. Courcelle, Recherches sur les Confessions de saint Augustin (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1950). This

revolutionized the study of the Confessions.

Paula Fredriksen, “Paul and Augustine: conversion narratives, orthodox traditions, and the retrospective self.”

Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 37 (1986) 3-34.

William Mallard, Language and Love: Introducing Augustine’s Religious Thought Through the Confessions Story

(Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994) paperback, $17.

André Mandouze, Saint Augustin: L’aventure de la raison et de la grâce (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1968).
Robert McMahon, Augustine’s Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions (Athens, GA:

Georgia University Press, 1989) hardcover, $35.

Robert J. O’Connell, St. Augustine’s Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul (New York: Fordham University Press,

1969) paperback, $15.

Robert J. O’Connell, Images of Conversion in Saint Augustine’s Confessions (New York: Fordham University Press,

1995) hardcover, $35.

John J. O’Meara, The Young Augustine: an Introduction to the Confessions of St. Augustine (1954). Despite the

years, one of the finest studies of Augustine’s Confessions.

Colin Starnes, Augustine’s Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions I-IX (Waterloo, Ottawa: Wilfrid

Laurier University Press, 1990).

Brian Stock, Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation (Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 1996) paperback, $20. Rather complex.

Frederick van Fleteren, “Augustine’s Theory of Conversion,” in Augustine: Second Founder of the Faith, ed.,

Joseph C. Schnaubelt (New York: Peter Lang, 1990).

4. THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY

Maureen A. Tilley, The Bible in Christian North Africa: The Donatist World (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997)

NEW in paperback, $18. While this focuses on the Donatist use of scripture, it is most current study of the
Donatist movement and offers a valuable overview of its history.

Gerald Bonner, St. Augustine: His Life and Controversies (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 1986; reprint: Morehouse

Publishing Co. 1995) paperback, $30.

Mark Edwards, ed., Optatus: Against the Donatists, Translated Texts for Historians #27 (University of Pennsylvania

Press / Liverpool University Press, 1998) paperback, $20. NEW.

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W.H.C. Frend, The Donatist Church: a Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa (Oxford: Clarendon Press,

1952). The classic study; strongly anti-Augustinian in perspective.

Maureen A. Tilley, trans. Donatist Martyr Stories: The Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa, Translated Texts

for Historians (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997) paperback, $17. NEW.

5. THE PELAGIAN CONTROVERSY

Gerald Bonner, Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition: Augustine, Pelagianism and Early Christian

Northumbria (London: Variorum Reprints, 1996) hardback, $90. See especially his excellent 2-part study
“Pelagianism and Augustine” & “Augustine and Pelagianism,” reprinted from Augustinian Studies. One of
the best overviews of the most complex debate of Augustine’s career.

Gerald Bonner, St. Augustine: His Life and Controversies (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 1986; reprint: Morehouse

Publishing Co. 1995) paperback, $30.

Peter Brown, Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (New York: Harper & Row, 1972). See his classic

essays: “Pelagius and His Supporters: Aims and Environment” and “The Patrons of Pelagius: the Roman
Aristocracy Between East and West.”

J. Patout Burns, The Development of Augustine’s Doctrine of Operative Grace (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1980).

Brilliant analysis.

Elizabeth A. Clark, “Vitiated Seeds and Holy Vessels: Augustine’s Manichean Past,” Ascetic Piety and Women’s

Faith: Essays on Late Ancient Christianity, Studies in Women and Religion, vol. 20 (Lewiston: Edwin
Mellen Press, 1986) 291-349. Despite the title, a study of Augustine’s debate with Julian of Eclanum.

Elizabeth A. Clark, “From Origenism to Pelagianism,” The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an

Early Christian Debate (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992) 194-244.

Theodore DeBruyn, trans. Pelagius’ Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Oxford Early Christian

Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) NEW in paperback, $25.

Robert F. Evans, Pelagius: Inquiries and Reappraisals (New York: Seabury Press, 1968). A classic.
William Harmless, “Christ the Pediatrician: Infant Baptism and Christological Imagery in the Pelagian Controversy,”

Augustinian Studies 28 (1997) 7-34.

B.R. Rees, Pelagius: A Reluctant Heretic (Wolfboro, NH: Boydell Press, 1988) paperback, $25. A revisionist view.
Eugene TeSelle, “Rufinus the Syrian, Caelestius, Pelagius: Explorations in the Pre-History of the Pelagian

Controversy,” Augustinian Studies 3 (1972) 61-95.

Rebecca Harden Weaver, Divine Grace and Human Agency: A Study of the Semi-Pelagian Controversy, Patristic

Monograph Series 15 (Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 1996) NEW in paperback, $18.

6. AUGUSTINE THE PASTOR & PREACHER

William Harmless, Augustine and the Catechumenate (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1995) paperback,

$35. Augustine was not just a theologian. He was also a struggling 5th-century North African pastor who
had a flair for teaching and who meditated a great deal on the complexities of the human heart. This study
examines a little known side of him: his work as a teacher of candidates for baptism. It reconstructs the
experience of becoming a Christian and of worshipping in the church of St. Augustine.

Frederic Van der Meer, Augustine the Bishop, trans. B. Battershaw & G.R. Lamb (London: Sheed & Ward, 1961).

A classic. It is massive, but worth the effort. Van der Meer has a novelist’s flair for bringing alive a world
quite different from our own. Also he weaves into his narrative striking quotes from Augustine’s letters and
sermons.

Henry Chadwick, “The New Sermons of St. Augustine,” Journal of Theological Studies 47 (1996) 69-91. An

introduction to the 26 new sermons discovered by F. Dolbeau in the late 1980s-early 1990s.

Roy Deferrari, “St. Augustine’s Method of Composing and Delivering Sermons,” The American Journal of

Philology 43 (1922) 97-123, 193-219. The classic study.

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Coleen Hoffman Gowans, The Identity of the True Believer in the Sermons of Augustine of Hippo: A Dimension of

His Christian Anthropology (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998) hardcover, $90. NEW.

Peter Iver Kaufman, Church, Book, and Bishop: Conflict and Authority in Early Latin Christendom (Boulder, CO:

Westview Press, 1996) paperback, $18.

M. LeLandais, “Deux années de prédication de saint Augustin. Introduction a la lecture de l’In Joannem,” in Études

Augustiniennes, ed. Henri Rondet (Paris: Aubier, 1954) pp. 1-95.

Jane E. Merdinger, Rome and the African Church in the Time of Augustine (New Haven: Yale University Press,

1997) hardcover, $40. A fine study of church politics between Africa & Rome.

Christine Mohrmann, “Saint Augustin prédicateur,” La Maison Dieu 39 (1954): 83-96; reprinted in Études sur le

latin des Chrétiens, 2nd ed., 1:391-402. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1961.

Robert J. O’Connell, Soundings in Augustine’s Imagination (New York: Fordham University Press, 1994)

paperback, $20. A study of Augustine’s images in his sermons.

Suzanne Poque, Le langage symbolique dans la prédication d’Augustin d’Hippone: Images héroïques, 2 vol. (Paris:

Etudes augustiniennes, 1984).

Pierre-Patrick Verbraken, Études critiques sur les sermons authentiques de saint Augustin, Instrumenta Patristica

XII (Steenbrugis: 1976).

7. AUGUSTINE THE EXEGETE

Duane W.H. Arnold & Pamela Bright, ed., De Doctrina Christiana: a Classic of Western Culture, Christianity and

Judaism in Antiquity, vol. 9 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) hardcover, $35. One of
the best studies to date on Augustine as an interpreter of the Bible. See especially the essays by Roland
Teske, John Cavadini, J. Patout Burns, and Pamela Bright.

Gerald Bonner, “Augustine as Biblical Scholar,” in The Cambridge History of the Bible (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1970) vol. 1, pp. :541-563.

Pamela Bright, ed., Augustine and the Bible, Vol. 2 of Bible Through the Ages (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University

Press, 1999) hardcover. Not yet available.

Joseph T. Lienhard, “Reading the Bible and Learning to Read: The Influence of Education on St. Augustine’s

Exegesis,” St. Augustine Lecture 1995, Augustinian Studies 27 (1996) 7-25.

Bertrand de Margerie, An Introduction to the History of Exegesis: Vol. 3: Saint Augustine, trans. Pierre de

Fontnouvelle (Petersham, MA: St. Bede’s Publications, 1995).

8. AUGUSTINE THE THEOLOGIAN

Lewis Ayres, “The Christological Context of Augustine’s De trinitate XIII: Toward Relocating Books VIII-XV,”

Augustinian Studies 29:1 (1998) 111-139.

J. Patout Burns, The Development of Augustine’s Doctrine of Operative Grace (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1980).
J. Patout Burns, “Augustine on the Origin and Progress of Evil,” in The Ethics of St. Augustine, ed., William S.

Babcock (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991) 67-86.

John Cavadini, “The Structure and Intention of Augustine’s De trinitate,” Augustinian Studies 23 (1992) 103-123.
Dennis R. Creswell, St. Augustine’s Dilemma: Grace and Eternal Law in the Major Works of Augustine of Hippo

(New York: Peter Lang, 1997).

Brian E. Daley, “A Humble Mediator: the Distinctive Elements in St. Augustine’s Christology,” Word and Spirit 9

(1987) 100-117. The best brief study to date of Augustine’s Christology.

Carol Harrison, Beauty and Revelation in the Thought of Saint Augustine, Oxford Theological Monographs (New

York: Oxford University Press, 1992) hardcover, $65.

Ragnar Holte, Béatitude et sagesse: saint Augustin et le problème de la fin de l’homme dans la philosophie ancienne

(Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1962).

André Mandouze, Saint Augustin: L’aventure de la raison et de la grâce (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1968).
Henri Marrou, The Resurrection and Saint Augustine’s Theology of Human Values, St. Augustine Lecture 1966

(Villanova: Villanova University Press, 1967).

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Robert J. O’Connell, The Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine’s Later Works (New York: Fordham University Press,

1987) hardcover, $35.

William A. Sumruld, Augustine and the Arians: The Bishop of Hippo’s Encounters with Ulfilan Arianism

(Susquehanna University Press, 1994) hardcover, $35.

Basil Studer, The Grace of Christ and the Grace of God in Augustine of Hippo: Christocentrism or Theocentrism?

(Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1997) paperback, $30.

Basil Studer, “The Revelation of the Love of the Humble God According to Augustine,” in Trinity and Incarnation:

The Faith of the Early Church, ed. Andrew Louth (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1993) pp. 167-185.

Basil Studer, “History and Faith in Augustine’ De Trinitate” (The 1996 Saint Augustine Lecture), Augustinian

Studies 28, #1 (1997) 7-50.

Basil Studer, Dominus Salvator: Studien zur Christologie und Exegese der Kirchenvater, Studia Anselmiana 107

(Rome: 1992).

Eugene TeSelle, Augustine the Theologian (New York: Herder, 1970). A classic study.
T.J. Van Bavel, Recherches sur la christologie de saint Augustin, Paradosis 10 (Fribourg: Editions universitaires,

1954). The classic account of Augustine’s christology.

Rowan Williams, “Sapientia and Trinity: Reflections on the De Trinitate,” in Bernard Bruning, ed., Mélanges T.J.

Van Bavel (Leuven, 1990) vol. 1., pp. 317-332.

9. AUGUSTINE THE PHILOSOPHER

John M. Rist, Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994) NEW in

paperback, $21. This is the best recent study of the way Augustine absorbed and transformed ancient
philosophy. It treats key issues such as the relationship of words & meaning; body & soul; evil & divine
justice; love & will; faith & knowledge.

William S. Babcock, ed., The Ethics of St. Augustine (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991) hardcover, $30.
Werner Beierwaltes, Regio beatitudinis: Augustine’s Concept of Happiness, St. Augustine Lecture 1980 (Villanova:

Villanova University Press, 1981).

Vernon J. Bourke, Augustine’s Love of Wisdom: An Introspective Philosophy, (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue

University Press, 1992) paperback, $14.

Augustine J. Curley, Augustine’s Critique of Skepticism: A Study of Contra Academicos (New York: Peter Lang,

1997) hardcover, $33.

G.R. Evans, Augustine on Evil (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982) paperback, $13.
Paula Fredriksen, “Beyond the Body / Soul Dichotomy: Augustine’s Answer to Mani, Plotinus, and Julian,” in Paul

and the Legacies of Paul, ed. William S. Babcock (Dallas: SMU Press, 1990).

Lloyd P. Gerson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

paperback, $18. A good introduction to Augustine’s philosophic mentor.

Etienne Gilson, The Christian Philosophy of Saint Augustine, trans. L.E.M. Lynch (New York: Random House,

1960). A classic, but very dated.

Christopher Kirwan, Augustine, Arguments of the Philosophers (New York: Routledge, 1991) paperback, $15.
Robert J. O’Connell, The Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine’s Later Works (New York: Fordham University Press,

1987) hardcover, $35.

Robert J. O’Connell, St. Augustine’s Early Theory of Man, A.D. 386-391 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1968).
Dominic O’Meara, Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) paperback,

$15. Augustine was indebted to Plotinus and Neoplatonism; a good introduction.

Roland J. Teske, Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine, Aquinas Lecture #60 (Milwaukee: Marquette University

Press, 1996) paperback, $15.

N. Joseph Torchia, ‘Creatio Ex Nihilo’ and the Theology of St. Augustine, Collectanea Augustiniana (New York:

Peter Lang, 1999) forthcoming.

James Wetzel, Augustine and the Limits of Virtue (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) hardback, $60.

10. THE CITY OF GOD: STUDIES

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Gerard O’Daly, Augustine’s City of God: A Reader’s Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) hardcover,

$70. Forthcoming. This looks like it will offer a solid introduction and overview of Augustine’s magnum
opus.

Henry Chadwick, “Augustine on Pagans and Christians: Reflections on Religious and Social Change,” reprint in

Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Early Church (London: Variorum Reprints, 1991).

Dorothy F. Donnelly, ed., The City of God: A Collection of Critical Essays (New York: Peter Lang, 1995)

hardcover, $30.

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustine and the Limits of Politics (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1995) NEW in

paperback, $18.

Robert A. Markus, Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of Saint Augustine, 2

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edition (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1988). A masterful study.

A. Lauras et H. Rondet, “Le thème des deux cités dans l’oeuvre de saint Augustin,” in Henri Rondet, ed., Études

Augustiniennes (Paris: Aubier, 1953) pp. 97-160.

David Lenihan, “The Just War Theory in the Works of Saint Augustine,” Augustinian Studies 19 (1988) 37-70.
Eugene TeSelle, Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought (Scranton: University of

Scranton Press, 1998) paperback, $20.

11. SPECIAL TOPICS

Kari Elizabeth Børresen, “In Defense of Augustine: How femina is homo,” in Collectanea Augustiniana: Mélanges

T.J. van Bavel, ed. Bernard Bruning (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1990) pp. 411-428. An important
essay on Augustine’s view of women.

Peter Brown, “Sexuality and Society: Augustine,” in The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation

in Early Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988) pp. 387-427. A path-breaking essay
that overturns many previous interpretations of Augustine’s views on sexuality.

Henry Chadwick, “The New Letters of St. Augustine.” Journal of Theological Studies 34 (1983) 425-452. A

valuable introduction to the new set of Augustine’s letters discovered by Divjak in the early 1980s.

Harald Hagendahl, Augustine and the Latin Classics , Studia Graeca et Latina XX (Guteborg: Acta Universitatis

Cothoburgensis, 1967).

George Lawless, Augustine of Hippo and His Monastic Rule (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) paperback,

$20.

Andrew Louth, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981). Has a

fine chapter on Augustine’s spirituality.

Sabine MacCormack, The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine, Transformation of the Classical

Heritage 26 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) hardcover, $40. NEW.

Henri Marrou, Saint Augustin et la fin de la culture antique (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1958). A classic; one of the finest

studies of Augustine’s relationship to classical culture.

Robert A. Markus, “Augustine: In Defense of Christian Mediocrity,” in The End of Ancient Christianity, Canto

Books (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) back in paperback. A brilliant study of Augustine
on the body & sexuality.

Bernard McGinn, “Augustine: The Founding Father,” The Foundations of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century

(New York: Crossroad, 1994) pp. 228-262; paperback, $25. Fine summary of his mystical spirituality.

Christine Mohrmann, “Saint Augustin écrivain.” Recherches augustiniennes 1 (1958): 43-66; reprinted in Études sur

le latin des Chrétiens, 2

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ed. (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1961) vol. 2, pp. 247-275.

Willemien Otten, “Augustine on Marriage, Monasticism, and the Community of the Church,” Theological Studies

59, #3 (1998) 385-405.

Carolinne White, Christian Friendship in the Fourth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

hardcover. Has a fine chapter on Augustine’s views on friendship.

12. AUGUSTINE: TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS.

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John E. Rotelle, ed., The Complete Works of St. Augustine: a Translation for the 21st Century (New York: New City

Press, 1990- ). At long last, the whole Augustinian corpus is to be translated into English. This series
began in 1990 and will take several to complete. It is sponsored by the Augustinian Order at Villanova
University. Volumes now available:

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Part I, Vol. 1: The Confessions, trans. Maria Boulding (1997) paperback, $25.

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Part I, Vol. 5: The Trinity, trans. Edmund Hill (1991) paperback, $25.

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Part I, Vol. 9: Marriage and Virginity, trans. Ray Kearney (1999) hardcover, $35. NEW.

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Part I, Vol. 11: Teaching Christianity, trans. Edmund Hill (1996) paperback, $20.

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Part I, Vol. 23: Answer to the Pelagians I, trans. Roland J. Teske (1997) hardcover, $40. Contains:
The Punishment and Forgiveness of Sins and the Baptism of Little Ones; The Spirit and the Letter;
Nature and Grace; The Perfection of Human Righteousness; The Deeds of Pelagius; The Grace of
Christ and Original Sin; The Nature and Origin of the Soul.

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Part I, Vol. 24: Answer to the Pelagians II, trans. Roland J. Teske (1998) hardcover, $40. NEW.
Contains: Marriage and Desire; Answer to the Two Letters of the Pelagians; Answer to Julian.

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Part III, Vol. 1-10, Sermons, trans. Edmund Hill (1990-1995) hardcover, $40 per volume. A massive
achievement, the first complete translation of Augustine’s Sermones ad populum. Superb, folksy style,
occasionally idiosyncratic.

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Part III, Vol. 11, Newly Discovered Sermons, trans. Edmund Hill (1998) hardcover, $40. NEW.
Starting in 1989, F. Dolbeau began publishing 30 newly discovered sermons of Augustine. This is their
first translation into English.

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Part III, Vol. 12, Expositions on the Psalms 1-50, trans. Maria Boulding (1999) hardcover, $39. NEW.

Augustine, Confessions. The best recent translation is that of Henry Chadwick (New York: Oxford University Press,

1991) paperback, $7; also good is that of R.S. Pine-Coffin (New York: Penguin Books, 1961) paperback,
$7; see also the one by Maria Boulding most others are dated or stilted. The Confessions is Augustine’s
long meditation on his life and conversion (Bk. 1-9), on his interior life at the time he is writing (Bk. 10),
and on the opening verses of Genesis (Bk. 11-13). One of the masterpieces of Western literature.

Augustine, The City of God Against the Pagans [De ciuitate dei] ed., R.W. Dyson, Cambridge Texts in the History

of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) paperback, $25. NEW. See also the
older translation by Henry Bettenson (New York: Penguin Books, 1963) paperback, $12.

.Augustine, First Catechetical Instruction [De catechizandis rudibus], trans. Joseph P. Christopher, Ancient

Christian Writers 2 (New York: Newman Press, 1946; reprint: New York: Paulist Press).

Augustine, On Christian Teaching [De doctrina christiana] trans. R.P.H. Green, World’s Classics (New York:

Oxford University Press, 1997) paperback, $10.

Augustine, Tractates on the Gospel of John, Fathers of the Church 78, 79, 88, 90, 92 (Washington: Catholic

University of America Press, 1988-1996).

John Burnaby, ed., Augustine: Later Works, Library of Christian Classics, (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1955)

paperback, $25.

Gillian Clark, ed., Augustine: Confessiones, Books I-IV, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1996) paperback, $18. The Latin text with valuable commentary.

Mary T. Clark, ed. Augustine of Hippo— Selected Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality (New York: Paulist

Press, 1984) paperback, $16.

John Leinenweber, trans., The Letters of Saint Augustine (Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books, 1992) paperback, $12.

13. LATER LATIN FATHERS: TEXTS & STUDIES

R.A. Markus, Gregory the Great and His World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) paperback, $23.

Some have called Gregory (d.604) the first medieval pope. Like his medieval successors, Gregory was an
able local administrator who repaired Rome’s aqueducts and fended off barbarian invaders; he also saw the
papacy in a world-wide perspective, offering sage pastoral guidance to Christians in North Africa and
initiating the great Christian mission to England. He also lived in a world that was falling apart: an empire

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collapsing around him, an Italy devastated by the Black Plague. He saw himself as pope for the endtimes—
and spoke movingly of the meaning of suffering in his magisterial sermons on the Book of Job. This is the
first full-length study of Gregory since F.H. Dudden’s magisterial work in 1905.

Boniface Ramsey, Ambrose, Early Christian Fathers (New York: Routledge, 1997) paperback, $18. Like others in

this series, this includes both a 60-page introduction to Ambrose’s life, as well as a selection of some of his
major works, such as On Naboth, On the Mysteries, and his hymns. It also includes a new translation of
Paulinus of Milan’s biography of Ambrose.

J.N.D. Kelly, Jerome: His Life, Writings, and Controversies (reprint of 1975 edition: Peabody, MA: Hendrickson,

1998) paperback, $18. Jerome was the greatest biblical scholar of the ancient world and the famed
translator of the Bible into Latin (his Vulgate, held sway for over a thousand years). But Jerome was also a
feisty—and usually ill-tempered—man who provoked controversy wherever he lived. His sharp tongue
could make him an entertaining critic of his contemporaries—a sort of ecclesiastical Mark Twain. This is
the classic biography.

Philip R. Amidon, trans., The Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia: Books 10 and 11 (New York: Oxford

University Press, 1997) hardcover, $45.

John C. Cavadini, ed., Gregory the Great: a Symposium, Notre Dame Studies in Theology 2 (Notre Dame:

University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) hardcover, $35.

G.R. Evans, The Thought of Gregory the Great, Studies in Medieval Life & Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1986) paperback, $12.

F. Homes Dudden, The Life and Times of St. Ambrose, 2 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935). Brilliant, but

dated.

Goulvan Madec, Saint Ambroise et la philosophie (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1974).
Miroslav Marcovich, Prosper of Aquitaine: De Providentia Dei: Text, Translation, and Commentary, Supplements

to Vigiliae Christianae, vol. X (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989).

Neil B. McLynn, Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, Transformation of the Classical

Heritage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) hardback, $40. Bold, speculative.

Carole Straw, Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 14 (Berkeley:

University of California, 1988) paperback, $13.

Rebecca Harden Weaver, Divine Grace and Human Agency: A Study of the Semi-Pelagian Controversy, Patristic

Monograph Series 15 (Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 1996) NEW in paperback, $18.

Lionel Wickham, ed., Hilary of Poitiers: Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth Century, Translated Texts

for Historians #25 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1998) paperback, $17. NEW.

Daniel H. Williams, Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Nicene-Arian conflicts, Oxford Early Christian Studies

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) hardback, $60.