Hugo A. Meynell, editor

About the Book

Augustine makes his mark in many fields: as political philosopher, biblical exegete, theorist of culture and spiritual autobiographer. His phenomenal range is reflected in this collection of papers. Three essays deal with Augustine's conversion; his account of the norms of authentic conversion, his psychological analysis of his own conversion, and his conversion as compared with that of Pascal. Others treat his concept of concupiscence, his theories of music, rhetoric and politics, his relation to the Roman Empire of his time, his changing stance towards Neoplatonism and his pluralism, his attitude to poetry, and the principles he employed for the interpretation of Scripture.

About the Editor

Hugo Meynell is a professor with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and is the author or editor of numerous other books.

Table of Contents

• Hugo A. Meynell: Augustine and the Norms of Authentic Conversion
• Harold G. Coward: Memory and Scripture in the Conversion of Augustine
• Richard M. Chadbourne: Two Converts: Augustine and Pascal
• Margaret R. Miles: The Body and Human Values in Augustine of Hippo
• Anthony J. Parel: Justice and Love in the Political Thought of St. Augustine
• Haijo J. Westra: Augustine and Poetic Exegesis
• Gordon J. Hamilton: Augustine's Methods of Biblical Interpretation
• William Jordan: Augustine on Music
• Christine Mason Sutherland: Love as Rhetorical Principle: The Relationship Between Content and Style in the Rhetoric of St. Augustine
• Timothy D. Barnes: Religion and Society in the Age of Theodosius
• John Vanderspoel: The Background to Augustine's Denial of Religious Plurality

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