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Teaching Augustine Edited by Scott McGinnis and Christopher Metress Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Religions www.mdpi.com/journal/religions Teaching Augustine Edited by Scott McGinnis and Christopher Metress This book is a reprint of the special issue that appeared in the online open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) in 2015 (available at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/teaching-augustine). Guest Editors Scott McGinnis Religion Department, Howard College of Arts and Sciences Samford University 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL 35229 USA Christopher Metress Samford University 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL 35229 USA Editorial Office MDPI AG Klybeckstrasse 64 Basel, Switzerland Publisher Shu-Kun Lin Assistant Editor Jie Gu 1. Edition 2015 MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan ISBN 978-3-03842-115-3 (Hbk) ISBN 978-3-03842-116-0 (PDF) © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. All articles in this volume are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. However, the dissemination and distribution of copies of this book as a whole is restricted to MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. III Table of Contents List of Contributors ............................................................................................................ VII About the Guest Editors ....................................................................................................... XI Preface .............................................................................................................................. XIII Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................. XV Introduction ..................................................................................................................... XVII Section I. Keynote Addresses Peter Iver Kaufman Deposito Diademate: Augustine’s Emperors Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(2), 317-327 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/2/317 .............................................................................. 3 Kristen Deede Johnson The Justice Game: Augustine, Disordered Loves, and the Temptation to Change the World Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(2), 409-418 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/2/409 ............................................................................ 14 Section II. Pedagogical Contexts Allan Fitzgerald Naming the Mystery: An Augustinian Ideal Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(1), 204-210 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/1/204 ............................................................................ 27 J. Caleb Clanton Teaching Socrates, Aristotle, and Augustine on Akrasia Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(2), 419-433 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/2/419 ............................................................................ 4 Ian Clausen Seeking the Place of Conscience in Higher Education: An Augustinian View Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(2), 286-298 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/2/286 ............................................................................ 9 IV Peter Busch Modern Restlessness, from Hobbes to Augustine Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(2), 626-637 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/2/626 ............................................................................ 2 Section III. Rarely Read Augustine Daniel E. Burns Augustine’s Introduction to Political Philosophy: Teaching De Libero Arbitrio, Book I Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(1), 82-91 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/1/82 .............................................................................. 7 Robert D. Anderson Teaching Augustine’s On the Teacher Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(2), 404-408 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/2/404 ............................................................................ 7 John MacInnis Augustine’s De Musica in the 21st Century Music Classroom Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(1), 211-220 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/1/211 .......................................................................... 2 Section IV. Exemplary Assignments Bryan J. Whitfield Teaching Augustine’s Confessions in the Context of Mercer’s Great Books Program Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(1), 107-112 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/1/107 .......................................................................... 13 Mark S. M. Scott Augustine and Autobiography: Confessions as a Roadmap for Self-Reflection Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(1), 139-145 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/1/139 .......................................................................... 19 Maria Poggi Johnson Augustine, Addiction and Lent: A Pedagogic Exercise Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(1), 113-121 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/1/113 .......................................................................... 15 V Section V. Augustine in the Core Curriculum and Beyond Michael Chiariello Augustine’s Confessions: Interiority at the Core of the Core Curriculum Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(3), 755-762 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/3/755 .......................................................................... 15 Thomas Nordlund The Physics of Augustine: The Matter of Time, Change and an Unchanging God Reprinted from: Religions 2015, 6(1), 221-244 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/1/221 .......................................................................... 13 VII List of Contributors Robert Anderson is Professor of Philosophy at St. Anselm College. Daniel Burns is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas. He received his doctorate in political philosophy from Boston College in 2012 with a dissertation entitled “St. Augustine on the Nature and Limits of Human Law.” He studies the relationship between religion and politics in a range of authors, including Augustine, Locke, Rousseau, Leo Strauss, and Joseph Ratzinger. He is a member of the Neuer Schülerkreis Joseph Ratzinger/Benedikt XVI., a Germany-based group of scholars dedicated to furthering Ratzinger’s intellectual legacy. Peter Busch is a Gallen Teaching Fellow in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University, where he is in his fourteenth year of teaching. His interests range from Homer to Nietzsche and most things between, but he is currently writing on Augustine’s critique of political philosophy in the City of God. Michael Chiariello is professor of philosophy, and former dean of Clare College, at St. Bonaventure University. Currently, he serves as director of The Franciscan Heritage Semester Study Abroad Program in Perugia, Italy. Recent publications include “Bob Dylan’s Truth,” in Philosophy and Bob Dylan (Open Court, 2005) and “Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose: Teaching the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition to Postmodern Undergraduates,” in Postscript to the Middle Ages (Syracuse Univ. Press 2010). J. Caleb Clanton is University Research Professor and associate professor of philosophy at Lipscomb University. His research centers on issues in philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy. His most recent book, Philosophy of Religion in the Classical American Tradition, is forthcoming with The University of Tennessee Press. Ian Clausen is a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow at Valparaiso University. As a British Marshall scholar, he earned his MTh and PhD in Theology and Ethics from the University of Edinburgh. He holds the Research Associate post at the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, and is a Fellow of the Paul Ramsey Institute. His published work can be found in journals such as Augustinian Studies, Religions, Expository Times, and Radical Orthodoxy. His first book, under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing, will bear the title The Long Surrender: Augustine’s Moral Self. Fr. Allan Fitzgerald, O.S.A, is the director of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University as well as professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Editor of Augustine Through the Ages: an Encyclopedia and editor emeritus of the journal, Augustinian Studies, his research also includes numerous studies on Ambrose of Milan and on the history of Christian penance. VIII Kristen Deede Johnson is Associate Professor of Theology and Christian Formation at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. Previously, she served as the founding director of the Studies in Ministry Minor and the Center for Ministry Studies at Hope College, programs dedicated to upholding the significance of theological formation, spiritual growth, cultural engagement, and vocational discernment. She is the author of Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2007), a number of articles and chapters related to theology, culture, and political theory, and a forthcoming book with Bethany Hanke Hoang of International Justice Mission titled The Justice Calling: Where Passion Meets Perseverance (Brazos Press). Maria Poggi Johnson was educated at the Oxford University and the University of Virginia. She is a Professor of Theology at the University of Scranton, where she has taught since 1996. She is the editor of John Keble, Sermons for the Christian Year (Eerdmans, 2006) and the author of Strangers and Neighbors:
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