AUGUSTINE

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This seminar is a systematic engagement with the theology of St. Augustine. We will give special emphasis to Augustine’s early theology, studying his intellectual appropriation of the Christian faith within the context of his philosophic formation. We will study Augustine’s early dialogues and treatises to better understand his doctrine of God and the soul as well as his newfound confidence in the authority of Christ, the Christian Scriptures, and the Catholic faith. We will delve into the final and less studied books of the Confessions as well as his great treatise on Christian hermeneutics, De Doctrina Christiana. Finally, we will conclude our seminar by engaging a selection of Augustine’s expositions on the Psalms, focusing on the ecclesiology that animates his largest work, the Enarrationes in psalmos.