Prayer After Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology)

"The influence of the theology and philosophy of Augustine of Hippo on subsequent Western thought and culture is undisputed. Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition argues that the notion of the 'Augustinian tradition' needs to be re-thought; and that already in the generation after Augustine in the West such a re-thinking is already and richly manifest in more than one influential form. In this work, Jonathan D. Teubner encourages philosophical, moral, and historical theologians to think about what it might mean that the Augustinian tradition formed in a distinctively Augustinian fashion, and considers how this affects how they use, discuss, and evaluate Augustine in their work. This is exemplified by Augustine's reflections on prayer and how they were taken up, modified, and handed on by Boethius and Benedict, two critically influential figures for the development of Latin medieval philosophical and theological cultures. Teubner analyses and exemplifies the particular theme of prayer and the other topics it constellates in Augustine and to show how it already forms a distinctively 'Augustinian' concept of tradition that was to prove to have fascinatingly diverse manifestations. Part I traces the development of Augustine's understanding of prayer. Patience and hope as articulated in prayer sit at the centre of Augustine's understanding of Christian existence. In Part II, Teubner turns to suggest how this is picked up by Boethius and Benedict." -- From publisher's website Cover Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition Copyright Acknowledgments Contents Introduction TRADITION AND MODERNITY PRAYER AND THE LATIN TRADITION L’AUGUSTINISME AND THE AUGUSTINIAN TRADITION AUGUSTINIANISM 1 AND AUGUSTINIANISM 2 AUGUSTINIAN CHRISTIAN EXISTENCE I WHAT THIS STUDY IS NOT THE SHAPE OF THIS STUDY Part I A Theological Prelude 1: Learning to Pray Soliloquia 1.1-6: Prayer as Desire for the beata vita De moribus ecclesiae catholicae 1.31.66: Prayer as `Conversation ́ with God De magistro 1.2: Prayer andthe interior homo 2: Prayer as Acceptance of Time Ascents of the Soul fromCassiciacum to Rome De vera religione: Christian Existence in Thagaste Prayer and Christian Existence in De sermone Domini in monte 2 3: Prayer as Reception of the Other Encountering the Problem: Mediation in Enarrationes in Psalmos 1-32 The Process of induere in Expositio Epistulae ad Galatas Praying in Christ: totus Christus in Enarrationes in Psalmos Totus Christus as `Grammar ́ of Prayer in Psalm 85 Totus Christus as Suffering Community in Psalm 132 Christian Existence as sub specie orationis I 4: Prayer as the Hope of Wisdom Ep. 130: Failing towards the beata vita Deprecari and precari as Structuring Antithesis Participation in De trinitate 4 Faith and Contemplation, scientia and sapientia in De trinitate 13 De anima et eius origine 4: In Defence of Ignorance Prayer as a Practice of Inquiry I Part II A Historiographical Interlude Harnack, Marrou, and the Italian Sixth Century Transformation of the Western Empire 5: The Augustinianism 1 of the Opuscula sacra Boethius, a Latin Christian Prayer as `Putting On ́ Christ ́sDesires in OSV Prayer and Theological Failure in OSI Conclusion 6: The Augustinianism 2 of The Consolation of Philosophy Interpreting the Consolation The Consolation as Dialogue Prayer in Consolation 5 Prayer as a Practice of Inquiry II Consolation as Augustinian 7: The Augustinianism 1 of the Rule of St Benedict Interpreting the Rule Augustinian Fraternal Relations Solidarity in RB 31, 35, 46, and 51 Inequality in RB 36 and 55 Charity in RB 64 Pure Prayer in Community Conclusion 8: The Augustinianism 2 of the Rule of St Benedict Interpreting the Rule Redux Benedict the Theologian: RB 3, 7, 71-2 A Humble Union in RB 3 Divine Subjectivity in RB 7 Loving Patience in RB 71-2 Christian Existence as sub specie orationis II Benedict, the Augustinian Theologian Conversatio as Augustinian An Ethical Postlude Augustinian Christian Existence II Locating Tradition Between MacIntyre and Stout The Scope and Function ofAugustinianism 2 Tradition as Duty Bibliography Primary Sources Pre-modern Sources Modern Sources Index This study provides an account of Augustine's understanding of prayer and its importance to his theology by drawing on his practices as monk and bishop.