[Augustine in Conversation 01] • Augustine and World Religions by Brown, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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AUGUSTINE IN CONVERSATION: TRADITION AND INNOVATION Also by Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction I - AUGUSTINE’S RELATION TO JUDAISM AND ROMAN RELIGIONS

1 - Augustine and the Invention of Magical Dissent

INTRODUCTION MAGIC IN ANTIQUITY EVOLUTION OF THE TERMS AUGUSTINE MODERN DESCRIPTIONS OF MAGIC MODERN PRACTITIONERS OF MAGIC NOTES

2 - Secundum Carnem: History and Israel in the Theology of St. Augustine

INTRODUCTION DUALIST AND CATHOLIC ANTI-JUDAISM AUGUSTINE, ALLEGORY, AND THE BIBLE ISRAEL, THE LAW, AND THE JEWS JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN IDENTITY CONCLUSION NOTES

3 - Unwitting Witnesses: Jews and Judaism in the Thought of Augustine

INTRODUCTION EARLY CHRISTIAN TEACHING ON JEWS AND JUDAISM AUGUSTINE’S DOCTRINE OF JEWISH WITNESS JEWS AND JUDAISM IN AUGUSTINE’S CONTEXT CONCLUSION NOTES

4 - A Christian Aeneid: Pagan and Christian Education in the Confessions

INTRODUCTION VIRGIL’S AENEID ODYSSEY: SIN AND LIFE UNDER THE ETERNAL LAW A HOMELAND, OF SORTS ILIAD: RETURN FROM EXILE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH OVERCOMING SELF FOUNDING OF THE CHURCH—BOOK 11: ETERNITY AND TIME BOOK 12: FRIENDSHIP BOOK 13: THE CITY OF GOD CONCLUSION NOTES

INTRODUCTION THEO-SEMIOTICS JOHN 1:14, THE INCARNATE WORD, AND THE UNAVOIDABLE MEDIATION OF SIGNS THE MEDIATION OF SCRIPTURAL SIGNS TRIADIC SEMIOTICS—LITERAL AND ALLEGORICAL CONJOINED INTO AN EFFECTIVE UNIT TEXTUALLY REPLICATING GOD’S PLAN OF REDEMPTION ENTAILS SEMIOTIC REPAIR OF THE WORLD TRACTATUS ADVERSUS IUDAEOS THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY WITHIN GOD’S LIFE THE WORST BITS THE BEST BITS A POTENTIAL LOGIC FOR REREADING TRACTATUS ADVERSUS IUDAEOS THROUGH HIS BIBLICAL HERMENEUTIC NOTES

II - AUGUSTINE AND NON-WESTERN RELIGIONS

6 - Way and Wilderness: An Augustinian Dialogue with Buddhism

INTRODUCTION RELIGION, ENGAGEMENT, AND THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH THE FRUITS OF BEING AN ASCETIC MINDFULNESS OF THE WAY THE WAY EVER WILDERNESS PILGRIMAGE AND LOSS ETERNITY AND TRANSIENCE LIVING IN TIME LIVING IN HOPE NOTES

8 - Wisdom, Compassion, and Charity: The Lotus Sutra and Augustine

THE LOTUS SUTRA AUGUSTINE THE PREACHER SIGNA AND UPAYA WISDOM, CARITAS, AND KARUNA NARRATIVES OF TRANSFORMATION PLURALITY AND UNITY AMBIGUOUS HISTORIES OF INTERPRETATION CONCLUDING HERMENEUTICAL REFLECTIONS: REREADING OUR TRADITIONS IN A PLURALISTIC AGE NOTES

INTRODUCTION XUNZI AND AUGUSTINE FOLLOWING THE WAY CRUCIFYING AND RESURRECTING THE MIND RITUAL PRAYER SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AND THE MANIPULATION OF INNER AND OUTER PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE CONCLUSION: THE PROBLEM OF COMPARATIVE EVALUATION NOTES

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