Augustine and the Disciplines From Cassiciacum to Confessions [Hardcover]

Augustine and the Disciplinestakes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became the focus of medieval culture in the West. Augustine himself became increasingly aware that an ambivalent attitude towards knowledge and learning was inherent in Christianity. By facing the intellectual challenge posed by this tension he arrived at a new theory of how to interpret the Bible correctly.

1. Introduction,Mark Vessey
I.Honesta studia: classrooms without walls
2. Disciplines of discipleship in late antique education: Augustine and Gregory Nazianzen,Neil McLynn
3. The duty of a teacher: liminality anddisciplinain Augustine'sDe Ordine,Catherine Conybeare
II.Disciplinarum libri: the canon in question
4. Augustine's disciplines:silent diutius Musae Varronis?,Danuta R. Shanzer
5. Divination and the disciplines of knowledge according to Augustine,William E. Klingshirn
6. The vocabulary of the liberal arts in Augustine'sConfessions,Philip Burton
III.Doctrina Christiana: beyond the disciplines
7. The grammarian's spoils:De Doctrina Christianaand the contexts of literary education,Catherine M. Chin
8. Augustine's critique of dialectic: between Ambrose and the Arians,Stefan Hessbruggen-Walter
9. Augustine's hermeneutics as a universal discipline?,Karla Pollmann

Karla Pollmannis Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading.
Mark Vessey is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.