Patristics Bibliography #6: Augustine

Allan Fitzgerald & John Cavadini, eds., Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999) hardcover, $75. The most up-to-date reference work on Augustine, over 900 pages, surveying every aspect of his life, writings, theology, and influence. This is the best place place to start one’s research on Augustine. The opening pages has a chart with a complete list of Augustine’s treatises, both original texts and English translations; other charts list Augustine’s letters and sermons.

Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: a Biography, rev. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) paperback, $20. Start here. This is certainly the best biography of Augustine—written with masterful insight and in masterful prose. Brown’s gift is to bring alive all the richly human tensions and depths of Augustine’s personality and world. This new edition has an epilogue on the newly discovered sermons and letters.

Serge Lancel, Saint Augustine (London: SCM Press, 2002) paperback, $35. The first full-length biographical study to rival Brown’s study. It is especially good on the archeology of North Africa. Unlike Brown's work, it gives Augustine's theology its rightful attention. First published in French in 1999, it remains somewhat hard to find in the U.S.

Gerald Bonner, St. Augustine: His Life and Controversies, 3rd ed. (Morehouse Publishing Co., 2002) paperback, $30. A good one-volume study of Augustine’s theology.

Henry Chadwick, Augustine: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) paperback, $9. A fine brief survey of Augustine’s theology.

Mary T. Clark, Augustine (reprint of 1991 edition: New York: Continuum, 2001) paperback, $19.

Cornelius Mayer, ed., Augustinus Lexikon, 3 volumes to date (Basel: Scwabe, 1986- ). A massive encyclopedia on Augustine, with articles written in one of four languages (German, English, French, Italian). This ambitious but slow-moving project will, at the present rate, take decades to complete.

James J. O’Donnell, Augustine: A New Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 2005) paperback, $27. An astonishingly mean-spirited book. O'Donnell writes Augustine off as an untrustworthy "self-promoter" and seems intent on using his otherwise formidable scholarly expertise only to trash Augustine at virtually every turn. O'Donnell resurrects a host of old slanders (e.g. Augustine as a covert Manichee) and bottles his venom in deadpan asides. A very, very strange book.

Garry Wills, Saint Augustine, Penguin Lives (New York: Viking Press, 1999) NEW in paperback, $13. A good brief study of Augustine; quirky in spots, brilliant in others.

2. AUGUSTINE'S WRITINGS: TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS

Latin Texts: Nearly all of Augustine’s works can be found in J.P. Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 32-47. Migne reproduced the excellent 17th-century edition of the Benedictines of St. Maur. Recently, the publishers of Augustine’s works in Italian (the Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana) have provided a valuable service to students of Augustine by posting this classic edition (for free!) on the Internet. Here’s the address:

http://www.augustinus.it/latino/index.htm
This older Patrologia Latina edition is slowly being replaced by modern critical editions in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) and the Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina (CCL). The valuable, but still incomplete Bibliothèque Augustinienne (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1949- ) has volumes with the Latin text and a French translation on facing pages, often with valuable introductions and notes.
New Discoveries: Two groups of recently discovered texts have been the focus of much recent study. The first are a set of 29 letters: Johannes Divjak, ed., Epistolae ex duobus codicibus nuper in lucem prolatae, CSEL 88. The other are a set of 26 new sermons: Francois Dolbeau, ed. Vingt-six sermons au peuple d’Afrique, Retrouvé à Mayence, Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 147 (Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 1996).

Translations into English (Collections / Series): A number of Augustine’s works are found in two large series: Fathers of the Church (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press) and Ancient Christian Writers (New York: Paulist Press). See also the 8-volume collection in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1st series, for 19th-century translations (and these can be found at various places on the internet). The best translations are the following:

Works of Saint Augustine: John E. Rotelle & Boniface Ramsey, eds., The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century (New York: New City Press, 1990- ). At long last, the whole Augustinian corpus is to be translated into English. This series began in 1990 and will take at least another decade to complete. Volumes now available:

Part I, Vol. 1: The Confessions, trans. Maria Boulding (2002) paperback, $25.
Part I, Vol. 5: The Trinity, trans. Edmund Hill (1991) paperback, $25.
Part I, Vol. 8: On Christian Belief, trans. Edmund Hill, Ray Kearney, Michael Campbell, and Bruce Harbert; Michael Fiedrowicz (2005) paperback, $30. Contains: True Religion, The Advantage of Believing, Faith and the Creed, Faith in the Unseen, Demonic Divination, Faith and Works, Enchiridion.
Part I, Vol. 9: Marriage and Virginity, trans. Ray Kearney (1999) hardcover, $35. Contains: The Excellence of Marriage, Holy Virginity, The Excellence of Widowhood, Adulterous Marriage, and Continence.
Part I, Vol. 11: Teaching Christianity, trans. Edmund Hill (1996) paperback, $20.
Part I, Vol. 13: On Genesis, trans. Edmund Hill (2003) paperback. Contains: On Genesis: A Refutation of the Manichees, Unfinished Literal Commentary on Genesis, and The Literal Meaning of Genesis.
Part I, Vol. 18: Arianism and Other Heresies, trans. Roland J. Teske (1995; 2007) hardcover, $49. Back in print. Contains: Heresies, To Orosius in Refutation of the Priscillianists and Origenists, Answer to an Arian Sermon, Debate with Maximinus, Answer to Maximinus, Answer to an Enemy of the Law and the Prophets.
Part I, Vol. 19: The Manichean Debate, trans. Roland J. Teske (2006) hardcover, $44. NEW. Contains: The Catholic Way of Life and the Manichean Way of Life, The Two Souls, A Debate with Fortunatus, Answer to Adimantus, Answer to Felix, The Nature of the Good, and Answer to Secundinus.
Part I, Vol. 20: Answer to Faustus a Manichean, trans. Roland J. Teske (2007) hardcover, $49. NEW.
Part I, Vol. 23: Answer to the Pelagians I, trans. Roland J. Teske (1997) hardcover, $40. Contains: The Punishment and Forgiveness of Sins and the Baptism of Little Ones; The Spirit and the Letter; Nature and Grace; The Perfection of Human Righteousness; The Deeds of Pelagius; The Grace of Christ and Original Sin; The Nature and Origin of the Soul.
Part I, Vol. 24: Answer to the Pelagians II, trans. Roland J. Teske (1998) hardcover, $40. Contains: Marriage and Desire; Answer to the Two Letters of the Pelagians; Answer to Julian.
Part I, Vol. 25: Answer to the Pelagians III, trans. Roland J. Teske (1999) hardcover, $55. Contains the massive Incomplete Work Against Julian (the first translation of this into English).
Part I, Vol. 26: Answer to the Pelagians IV, trans. Roland J. Teske (1999) hardcover, $40. Contains: The Gift of Perseverance, The Predestination of the Saints.
Part II, Vol. 1-4, Letters, trans. Roland J. Teske (2001-2005) hardcover, $40 per volume. A complete translation of Augustine's letters, including the recently discovered Divjak letters.
Part III, Vol. 1-10, Sermons, trans. Edmund Hill (1990-1995) hardcover, $40 per volume. A massive achievement, the first complete translation of Augustine’s Sermones ad populum. Superb, folksy style, occasionally idiosyncratic word choice and notes.
Part III, Vol. 11, Newly Discovered Sermons, trans. Edmund Hill (1998) hardcover, $40. A translation of the Dolbeau sermons.
Part III, Vol. 15-20, Expositions on the Psalms, trans. Maria Boulding (2000-2004), 6 volumes, paperback, $25-$30 per volume. At last, a complete translation.

Other Recent Translations:

E.M. Atkins & Robert J. Dodaro, trans., Augustine: Political Writings, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) paperback, $23.

Raymond Canning, trans. Augustine of Hippo: Instructing Beginners in Faith, The Augustine Series, Vol. V (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2006) paperback, $14. NEW.

Henry Chadwick, trans., Augustine: Confessions, Oxford World's Classics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) paperback, $8.

R.W. Dyson, trans., Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) paperback, $25.

R.P.H. Green, trans. Augustine: On Christian Teaching [De doctrina christiana], Oxford World's Classics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) paperback, $10.

Gareth B. Matthews, ed. Augustine: On the Trinity [Books 8-15], Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) paperback, $26.

Eric Plumer, ed., Augustine’s Commentary on Galatians: Introduction, Translation, and Notes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) NEW in paperback, $35.

P.G. Walsh, ed., Augustine: De Bono Coniugali, De Sancta Virginitate, Oxford Early Christian Texts (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) hardcover, $60.

3. THE CONFESSIONS: TEXT & STUDIES

Augustine, Confessions, Oxford World’s Classics, trans. Henry Chadwick (reprint: New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) paperback, $8. The Confessions is Augustine’s long meditation on his life and conversion (Bk. 1-9), on his interior life at the time he is writing (Bk. 10), and on the opening verses of Genesis (Bk. 11-13). One of the masterpieces of Western literature. This is best translation to date. Two other up-to-date translations:

James J. O’Donnell, ed., Augustine: Confessions, 3 volumes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; reprint: 2000) hardcover. Volume 1 has the Latin text of the Confessions, while volumes 2 and 3 are a paragraph-by-paragraph commentary. A gold mine of information, but one needs to know Latin to follow things.

Philip Burton, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) hardcover, $75. NEW.

John C. Cavadini, “Time and Ascent in Confessions XI,” in Augustine: Presbyster Factus Sum, eds. Joseph T. Lienhard et al., Collectanea Augustiniana (New York: Peter Lang, 1993), 171-185.

Henry Chadwick, "History and Symbolism in the Garden at Milan," in F.X. Martin and J.A. Richmond, ed. From Augustine to Eriugena: Essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in Honor of John O'Meara (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1991), 42-55.

Gillian Clark, Saint Augustine: The Confessions, Landmarks of World Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). A simple but solid introduction.

Pierre Courcelle, Recherches sur les Confessions de saint Augustin, 2nd ed. (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1968).

Paula Fredriksen, “Paul and Augustine: Conversion Narratives, Orthodox Traditions, and the Retrospective Self.” Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 37 (1986): 3-34.

John P. Kenney, The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Re-Reading the Confessions (London; New York: Routledge, 2005) paperback, $30.

Annemaré Kotzé, Augustine’s Confessions: Communicative Purpose and Audience, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 71 (Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2004) hardcover, $110.

Robert McMahon, Augustine’s Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions (Athens, GA: Georgia University Press, 1989)

Robert J. O’Connell, St. Augustine’s Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul (New York: Fordham University Press, 1969).

John J. O’Meara, The Young Augustine: an Introduction to the Confessions of St. Augustine, 2^nd ed. (Alba House, 2001) paperback, $15. A classic from 1956, now back in print.

John J. O’Meara, “Augustine’s Confessions: Elements of Fiction,” in Joanne McWilliam, Augustine: from Rhetor to Theologian (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992) 77-96.

Kim Paffenroth & Robert Peter Kennedy, eds., A Reader’s Companion to Augustine’s Confessions (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003) paperback, $30.

Karla Pollman and Mark Vessey, eds., Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) hardcover, $80. NEW.

John M. Quinn, A Companion to the Confessions of St. Augustine (New York: Peter Lang, 2002) hardcover, $96. A massive study; sometimes more a paraphrase than a commentary.

Aime Solignac, ed., Les Confessions, Bibliothèque Augustinienne 13-14 (Paris: Desclée de Bouwer, 1962). This has the Latin text with a facing French translation. Valuable introduction and commentary.

Kenneth B. Steinhauser, “The Literary Unity of the Confessions,” in Joanne McWilliam, ed., Augustine: from Rhetor to Theologian (Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992) 15-30.

Luc Verheijen, “The Confessions: Two Grids of Composition and Reading,” in Augustine: Second Founder of the Faith, ed. Joseph C. Schnaublet et al. Collectanea Augustiana (New York: Peter Lang, 1990) 177-201.

Frances Young, “The Confessions of St. Augustine: What is the Genre of this Work?” (1998 St. Augustine Lecture) Augustinian Studies 30 (1999) 1-16.

Le Confessioni di Agostino (402-2002): Bilancio e prospettive: XXXI Incontro di studiosi dell’antichità cristiana, Roma, 2-4 maggio 2002 (Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2003).

4. AUGUSTINE THE BISHOP: PREACHER & EXEGETE

William Harmless, Augustine and the Catechumenate (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1995) paperback, $35. Augustine was not just a theologian. He was also a struggling 5th-century North African pastor who had a flair for teaching and who meditated a great deal on the complexities of the human heart. This study examines a little known side of him: his work as a teacher of candidates for baptism. It reconstructs the experience of becoming a Christian and of worshipping in the church of St. Augustine.

Duane W.H. Arnold & Pamela Bright, ed., De Doctrina Christiana: a Classic of Western Culture, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, vol. 9 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) hardcover, $41. See especially John Cavadini's "The Sweetness of the Word: Salvation and Rhetoric in Augustine's De doctrina christiana," pp. 164-181.

Lewis Ayres, “Augustine, Christology, and God as Love: An Introduction to the Homilies on 1 John,” in Nothing Greater, Nothing Better: Theological Essays on the Love of God (ed. K. Vanhoozer; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001), 67-93.

Isabel Bouchet, ‘Le firmament de l’Escriture’: herméneutique augustinienne, Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 174 (Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2004).

Pamela Bright, ed., Augustine and the Bible, Vol. 2 of Bible Through the Ages (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1999) paperback, $20. Uneven editing, but some excellent essays. See especially: Michael Cameron, "The Christological Substructure of Augustine's Figurative Exegesis," pp. 74-103.

J. Patout Burns, "The Eucharist as the Foundation of Christian Unity in North African Theology," Augustinian Studies 32 (2001): 1-23.

Michael Cameron, “Totus Christus and the Psychagogy of Augustine’s Sermons,” Augustinian Studies 36 (2005): 59-70.

Joseph Carola, Augustine of Hippo: The Role of the Laity in Ecclesial Reconciliation (Rome: Gregorian University Press, 2005) hardcover, $35.

Henry Chadwick, “The New Sermons of St. Augustine,” Journal of Theological Studies 47 (1996) 69-91. An introduction to the 26 new sermons discovered by F. Dolbeau in the early 1990s.

Daniel E. Doyle, The Bishop as Disciplinarian in the Letters of St. Augustine, Patristic Studies 4 (New York: Peter Lang, 2002).

William Harmless, “The Voice and the Word: Augustine’s Catechumenate in the Light of the Dolbeau Sermons,” Augustinian Studies 35 (2004) 17-42.

David G. Hunter, “Augustine, Sermon 354A*: Its Place in His Thought on Marriage and Sexuality,” Augustinian Studies 33 (2002): 39-60.

Daniel J. Jones, Christus Sacerdos in the Preaching of St. Augustine: Christ and Christian Identity, Patrologia: Beiträge zum Studium der Kirchenväter 14 (New York: Peter Lang, 2004) paperback, $90.

Joseph T. Lienhard, "Reading the Bible and Learning to Read: The Influence of Education on St. Augustine's Exegesis," Augustinian Studies 27 (1996): 7-25.

Goulven Madec, ed., Augustin Prédicateur (395-411): Actes du Colloque International de Chantilly (5-7 Sept, 1996), Collection des Études augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 159 (Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 1998). Papers on the Dolbeau sermons.

Michael C. McCarthy, “An Ecclesiology of Groaning: Augustine, the Psalms, and the Making of the Church,” Theological Studies 66 (2005): 23-48.

Jane E. Merdinger, Rome and the African Church in the Time of Augustine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997). A fine study of church politics between Africa & Rome.

Robert J. O’Connell, Soundings in Augustine’s Imagination (New York: Fordham University Press, 1994) paperback, $20. A valuable study of the imagery in Augustine’s sermons.

Joseph T. Lienhard, Earl C. Muller, & Roland J. Teske, eds., Augustine: Presbyter Factus Sum, Collectanea Augustiniana (New York: Peter Lang, 1993) hardcover, $70.

Joseph C. Schnaubelt & Frederick Van Fleteren, ed., Augustine: Biblical Exegete (New York: Peter Lang, 2001) hardcover, $74.

Frederic Van der Meer, Augustine the Bishop, trans. B. Battershaw & G.R. Lamb (London: Sheed & Ward, 1961). A classic.

5. AUGUSTINE'S THEOLOGY: SURVEYS & COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS

Robert Dodaro & George Lawless, eds., Augustine and His Critics: Essays in Honour of Gerald Bonner (New York: Routledge, 2000) paperback, $28. Augustine welcomed critics, and from the beginning his views have faced some sharp ones. This recent collection offers fresh perspectives on Augustine’s most controversial perspectives—and in the process debunks certain long-standing critiques of his work.

Gerald Bonner, St. Augustine: His Life and Controversies, 3rd ed. (Morehouse Publishing Co., 2002) paperback, $30. Bonner concentrates on Augustine's three big controversies (with the Manichees, the Donatists, and the Pelagians), devoting two chapters to each, one on the historical context and one on theological content. Despite the claim of being a "new edition," this is essentially the same book published in 1963.

Gerald Bonner, Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition: Augustine, Pelagianism and Early Christian Northumbria (London: Variorum Reprints, 1996).

Peter Brown, Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine (1972, reprint: Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2007) paperback, $24. A classic back in print at last.

Bernard Bruning et al., ed., Collectanea Augustiniana: Mélanges T.J. van Bavel, 2 vol. (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1990).

John Burnaby, Amor Dei: A Study of the Religion of St. Augustine (1938, reprint: Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2007) paperback, $24. A classic back in print.

Henry Chadwick, Augustine: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) paperback, $9. A fine brief survey of Augustine’s theology.

John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes & Kim Paffenroth, eds., Augustine and Politics, Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation Series (Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2004) paperback, $28.

Carol Harrison, Rethinking Augustine’s Early Theology: An Argument for Continuity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) hardcover, $110. NEW.

Carol Harrison, Augustine: Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity, Christian Theology in Context (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) paperback, $20. Good material, but confusing organization of topics.

Pierre-Marie Hombert, Gloria Gratiae: Se glorifier en Dieu, principe et fin de la théologie augustinienne de la grâce, Collections des Études Augustiniennes, Série antiquité 148 (Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 1996).

Goulvan Madec, Lectures Augustiniennes, Collections des Études Augustiniennes, Série antiquité 168 (Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2001).

André Mandouze, Saint Augustin: L’aventure de la raison et de la grâce (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1968).

Robert A. Markus, Augustine: A Collection of Critical Essays (Garden City, NJ: Anchor Books, 1972).

Robert A. Markus, From Augustine to Gregory the Great: History and Christianity in Late Antiquity, Collected Studies 169 (London: Variorum Reprints, 1983).

Robert A. Markus, Sacred and Secular: Studies on Augustine and Latin Christianity, Collected Studies 465 (Brookfield, VT: Variorum Reprints, 1994).

Karla Pollman and Mark Vessey, eds., Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) NEW in paperback, $35.

Joseph C. Schnaubelt, Frederick Van Fleteren, ed., Augustine: Second Founder of the Faith, Collectanea Augustiniana (New York: Peter Lang, 1990)

Basil Studer, The Grace of Christ and the Grace of God in Augustine of Hippo: Christocentrism or Theocentrism? (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1997).

Basil Studer, “The Revelation of the Love of the Humble God According to Augustine,” Trinity and Incarnation: The Faith of the Early Church, ed. Andrew Louth (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1993), 167-185.

Eugene TeSelle, Augustine the Theologian (reprint of 1970 edition: Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2002) paperback, $30. A classic, now back in print.

Frederick Van Fleteren, Joseph C. Schnaubelt, & Joseph Reino, eds., Augustine: Mystic and Mystagogue, Collectanea Augustiniana (New York: Peter Lang, 1994).

6. AUGUSTINE'S DEBATE WITH THE MANICHEES

Roland J. Teske, trans. The Manichean Debate, The Works of Saint Augustine I/19 (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2006) hardcover, $44. NEW. A valuable and up-to-date translation of Augustine's works against the Manichees, including a couple of never-before translated works. Teske is one of the top contemporary Augustinian translators.

Iaian Gardner & Samuel N.C. Lieu, Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) paperback, $33. Mani (216-276), born in Persian Mesopotamia, experienced a series of visions which convinced him that he was called to complete what earlier religious founders—Buddha, Zoroaster, Jesus—had left incomplete. Mani believed himself called to found the first true world religion, the “Religion of Life,” and described himself as the “apostle of Jesus Christ.” His followers went further, calling him "the Paraclete." The religion he founded would last 1400 years and spread west to Spain and east to China and rival Christianity in the Roman Empire (Augustine spent 10 years as a member). This anthology of Manichaean texts gathers important and hard-to-find texts and is edited by two of the finest scholars on Manichaeanism. A major resource.

Peter Brown, “The Diffusion of Manichaeism in the Roman Empire,” Journal of Roman Studies 59 (1969) 92-103; reprinted in Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine (New York: Harper & Row, 1972) 94-118.

Elizabeth A. Clark, “Vitiated Seeds and Holy Vessels: Augustine’s Manichean Past,” Ascetic Piety and Women’s Faith: Essays on Late Ancient Christianity, Studies in Women and Religion, vol. 20 (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986), 291-349.

J. Kevin Coyle, Augustine's "De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae": A Study of the Work, Its Composition and Its Sources, Paradosis 25 (Fribourg: University Press, 1978).

G.R. Evans, Augustine on Evil (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982) paperback.

F. Decret, L’Afrique manichéenne (IV^e-V^e siècles): Étude historique et doctrinale, 2 vol. (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1978).

Iaian Gardner & Samuel N.C. Lieu, Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) paperback, $33.

Samuel N.C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Mediaeval China (Manchester: University of Manchester, 1985; 2nd ed. Tübingen: Mohr, 1992).

Samuel N.C. Lieu, Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 118 (Leiden: Brill, 1997).

Roland J. Teske, “Augustine, the Manichees and the Bible,” in Pamela Bright, ed., Augustine and the Bible (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1999), 208-221.

N. Joseph Torchia, ‘Creatio Ex Nihilo’ and the Theology of St. Augustine, Collectanea Augustiniana (New York: Peter Lang, 1999) hardcover.

Johannes Van Oort, Otto Wermelinger & Gregor Wurst, eds., Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West (Leiden: Brill, 2001).

7. AUGUSTINE'S DEBATE WITH THE DONATISTS

James Alexander, "Donatism," in Philip F. Esler, The Early Christian World (New York: Routledge, 2000), 2:952-974.

Gerald Bonner, “Quid Imperatori cum Ecclesia? St. Augustine on History and Society,” Augustinian Studies 2 (1971) 231-251.

Peter Brown, “St. Augustine’s Attitude to Religious Coercion,” Journal of Roman Studies 54 (1964): 107-116; reprinted in Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (New York: Harper & Row, 1972).

F.E. Cranz, “The Development of Augustine’s Ideas on Society Before the Donatist Controversy,” Harvard Theological Review 47 (1954): 255-316; reprinted in R.A. Markus, Augustine: A Collection of Critical Essays (Garden City, NJ: Anchor Books, 1972).

Mark Edwards, ed., Optatus: Against the Donatists, Translated Texts for Historians 27 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1998) paperback.

W.H.C. Frend, The Donatist Church: a Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952; 1972). A classic, now dated in its assessments.

R.A. Markus, "Christianity and Dissent in Roman North Africa: Changing Perspectives in Recent Work," Studies in Church History 9 (1972): 21-36.

Maureen A. Tilley, The Bible in Christian North Africa: The Donatist World (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997) paperback.

Maureen A. Tilley, trans. Donatist Martyr Stories: The Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa, Translated Texts for Historians (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997) paperback.

8. AUGUSTINE'S DEBATE WITH THE PELAGIANS

Gerald Bonner, “Pelagianism and Augustine,” Augustinian Studies 23 (1992) 33-51; “Augustine and Pelagianism,” Augustinian Studies 24 (1993) 27-47. These two articles offer one of the best overviews of the events and the theology of the Pelagian controversy. This pair of articles has been reprinted twice: in Gerald Bonner's Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition: Augustine, Pelagianism and Early Christian Northumbria (London: Variorum Reprints, 1996); and again in Everett Ferguson, ed., Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity (New York: Garland, 1999) 191-210 & 211-232.

J. Patout Burns, The Development of Augustine’s Doctrine of Operative Grace (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1980). One of the finest analyses of Augustine's theology of grace. It traces its slow and often subtle evolution through each phase of the Pelagian Controversy.

Gerald Bonner, Freedom and Necessity: St. Augustine’s Teaching on Divine Power & Human Freedom (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007) paperback, $25. NEW.

Peter Brown, “Pelagius and His Supporters: Aims and Environment,” in Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (New York: Harper & Row, 1972).

Elizabeth A. Clark, “From Origenism to Pelagianism,” The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 194-244.

Theodore DeBruyn, trans. Pelagius’ Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), paperback, $35 A chance to hear Pelagius himself.

Geoffrey D. Dunn, "Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, and the Pelagian Controversy," Augustinian Studies 37, no. 1 (2006) 63-88. NEW.

Robert F. Evans, Pelagius: Inquiries and Reappraisals (New York: Seabury Press, 1968). A classic study.

William Harmless, “Christ the Pediatrician: Infant Baptism and Christological Imagery in the Pelagian Controversy,” Augustinian Studies 28 (1997) 7-34.

Mathijs Lamberigts, “Competing Christologies: Julian and Augustine on Jesus Christ,” Augustinian Studies 36 (2005): 159-194.

B.R. Rees, Pelagius: Life and Letters (Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 1991) paperback, $75. A revisionist reading, attempts to vindicate Pelagius. This includes valuable translations of Pelagius' letters; it also has treatises (such as On Riches) that may have come Pelagian circles.

Eugene TeSelle, “Rufinus the Syrian, Caelestius, Pelagius: Explorations in the Pre-History of the Pelagian Controversy,” Augustinian Studies 3 (1972) 61-95.

James Wetzel, Augustine and the Limits of Virtue (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) NEW in paperback, $45.

James Wetzel, "Snares of Truth: Augustine on Free will and Predestination," in Robert Dodaro & George Lawless, eds., Augustine and His Critics (New York: Routledge, 2000) 124-141.

9. THE TRINITY (DE TRINITATE): TEXT & STUDIES

Edmund Hill, ed. and trans., Augustine: The Trinity, The Works of Saint Augustine I/5 (Brooklyn, NY: New City Press, 1991) paperback, $20. A very good, readable translation. See also the older translation in John Burnaby, Augustine: Later Writings, Library of Christian Classics (Philadelphia: Westminster Press).

Lewis Ayres, “The Fundamental Grammar of Augustine’s Trinitarian Theology,” in R. Dodaro and G. Lawless, Augustine and His Critics (New York: Routledge, 2000) 51-76; reprinted in Lewis Ayres, Nicaea and Its Legacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) 364-383.

Lewis Ayres, “The Christological Context of Augustine’s De trinitate XIII: Toward Relocating Books VIII-XV,” Augustinian Studies 29 (1998) 111-139.

Lewis Ayres, “‘Remember That You are Catholic’ (serm. 52.2): Augustine on the Unity of the Triune God,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 8 (2000) 39-82.

Michel R. Barnes, “Re-reading Augustine’s Theology of the Trinity,” in S.T. Davis, D. Kendall, & G. O’Collins, eds., The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Doctrine of the Trinity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) pp. 145-176. paperback, $20.

Michel R. Barnes, “Exegesis and Polemic in Augustine’s De Trinitate I,” Augustinian Studies 30 (1999) 43-60.

Michel R. Barnes, “The Arians of Book V, and the Genre of De Trinitate,” Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 44 (1993) 185-195.

Michel R. Barnes, “Augustine in Contemporary Trinitarian Theology,” Theological Studies 56 (1995) 237-50.

John Cavadini, “The Structure and Intention of Augustine’s De trinitate,” Augustinian Studies 23 (1992) 103-123; reprinted in Everett Ferguson, Christianity in Relation to Jews, Greeks, and Romans, Recent Studies in Early Christianity 2 (New York: Garland, 1999) 231-252.

Mary T. Clark, “De Trinitate,” in Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) 91-102.

Andrew Louth, “Love and the Trinity: Saint Augustine and the Greek Fathers” (The 2001 St. Augustine Lecture) Augustinian Studies 33, #1 (2002) 1-16.

Olivier du Roy, L'intelligence de la foi en la Trinitaté selon s. Augustin: genèse de sa théologie trinitaire jusqu'en 391 (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1966).

Basil Studer, “History and Faith in Augustine’ De Trinitate” (The 1996 Saint Augustine Lecture), Augustinian Studies 28, #1 (1997) 7-50.

Basil Studer, "Augustin et la foi de Nicée," Recherches Augustiniennes 19 (1984): 133-154.

Robert Wilken, "Spiritus sanctus secundum scripturas sanctas: Exegetical Considerations of Augustine on the Holy Spirit," Augustinian Studies 31 (2000): 1-18.

Rowan Williams, "Trinitate, De," in Allan Fitzgerald, Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999) 845-851.

Rowan Williams, "Sapientia and the Trinity: Reflections on De Trinitate," in B. Bruning et al., Collectanea Augustiniana: Melanges T.J. Van Bavel (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990) 317-332.

R.W. Dyson, ed. and trans. Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans [De ciuitate dei], Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) paperback, $25. See also the older translation by Henry Bettenson (New York: Penguin Books, 1963) paperback, $12.

Gerard O’Daly, Augustine’s City of God: A Reader’s Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) paperback, $30. While there are many fine reader’s guides to Augustine’s Confessions, this is the only one on Augustine’s City of God. This is an excellent introduction and overview of Augustine’s magnum opus.

P. Curbelié, La justice dans La Cité de Dieu, Collections des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 171 (Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2004).

Robert Dodaro, Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) hardcover, $75.

Dorothy F. Donnelly, ed., The City of God: A Collection of Critical Essays (New York: Peter Lang, 1995) hardcover, $30.

Robert A. Markus, Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of Saint Augustine, 2^nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). A masterful study.

Oliver O’Donovan, “Augustine’s City of God XIX and Western Political Thought.” Dionysius 11 (1987): 89-110.

John O’Meara, Charter of Christendom: The Significance of the City of God. Saint Augustine Lecture 1961. New York: Macmillan, 1961.

Mikka Ruokanen, Theology of Social Life in Augustine’s De civitate Dei. Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, Band 53 (Göttingen: Vandenbork & Ruprecht, 1993).

Johannes Van Oort, Jerusalem and Babylon: A Study into Augustine’s City of God and the Sources of His doctrine of the Two Cities, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 14 (Leiden: Brill, 1991).

Mark Vessey, Karla Pollmann, and Allan Fitzgerald, eds., History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: New Essays on Augustine’s City of God (Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999).

Paul Weithman, “Augustine’s Political Philosophy,” in Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001)234-252.

Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) paperback, $23. A solid survey of Augustine’s thought, focused primarily but not exclusively on his philosophical concerns.

John M. Rist, Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994) paperback, $30. This is the best recent study of the way Augustine absorbed and transformed ancient philosophy. It treats key issues such as the relationship of words & meaning; body & soul; evil & divine justice; love & will; faith & knowledge.

Anne Isabell Bouton-Touboulic, L’ordre caché: La notion d’ordre chez saint Augustin, Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 174 (Paris: Institut d’Etudes Augustiniennes, 2004) hardcover.

Peter Burnell, The Augustinian Person (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006) paperback, $25. NEW.

Donald X. Burt, Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine’s Practical Philosophy (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999) paperback, $25.

Catherine Conybeare, The Irrational Augustine, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) hardcover, $85. NEW.

John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes & Kim Paffenroth, eds., Augustine and Politics, Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation Series (Lexington Books / Rowan & Littlefield, 2005) paperback, $28.

Carol Harrison, Beauty and Revelation in the Thought of Saint Augustine, Oxford Theological Monographs (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Simon Harrison, Augustine's Way into the Will: The Theological and Philosophical Significance of De libero arbitrio, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), hardcover, $110. NEW.

Ragnar Holte, Béatitude et sagesse: Saint Augustin et le problème de la fin de l’homme dans la philosophie ancienne (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1962).

Gareth B. Matthews, Augustine, Blackwell Great Minds (Blackwell Publishing, 2005) paperback, $25. Despite the general title, this focuses specifically on Augustine's philosophic thinking--at least as what of his thinking affects the history of Western philosophy.

Robert J. O’Connell, The Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine’s Later Works (New York: Fordham University Press, 1987) hardcover, $35.

Oliver O'Donovan, The Problem of Self-Love in St. Augustine (1980, reprint: Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2006) paperback, $15. A classic back in print.

Ronnie J. Rombs, Augustine and the Fall of the Soul: Beyond O’Connell & His Critics (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006) hardcover, $65. NEW.

Roland J. Teske, To Know God and the Soul: Essays on the Thought of St. Augustine (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 2008) hardcover, $70. NEW. A superb collection of essays by one of the finest philosophical analysts of Augustine (and one of Augustine's best translators).

Lewis Ayres, “Augustine on the Rule of Faith: Rhetoric, Christology, and the Foundation of Christian Thinking,” Augustinian Studies 36 (2005): 33-49.

Kari Elizabeth Børresen, “In Defense of Augustine: How femina is homo,” in Bernard Bruning et al., Collectanea Augustiniana: Mélanges T.J. van Bavel (Leuvain: Leuven University Press, 1990) 1:411-428.

Peter Brown, “Sexuality and Society: Augustine,” in The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988) pp. 387-427.

John Cavadini, "Feeling Right: Augustine on the Passions and Sexual Desire," Augustinian Studies 36 (2005): 195-217.

Paula Fredriksen, “Beyond the Body / Soul Dichotomy: Augustine’s Answer to Mani, Plotinus, and Julian,” in Paul and the Legacies of Paul, ed. William S. Babcock (Dallas: SMU Press, 1990).

Harald Hagendahl, Augustine and the Latin Classics , Studia Graeca et Latina XX (Guteborg: Acta Universitatis Cothoburgensis, 1967).

Erika T. Hermanowicz, Possidius of Calama: A Study of the North African Episcopate, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) hardcover, $100. NEW. Possidius was Augustine's earliest biographer. This is the first book-length study of him.

Pierre-Marie Hombert, Nouvelles recherches de chronologie augustinienne, Collection des etudes augustiniennes. Serie Antiquite 163 (Paris: Institut d'etudes augustiniennes, 2000).

David G. Hunter, “Augustine and the Making of Marriage in Roman North Africa,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003) 63-85.

Robert P. Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, & John Doody, eds., Augustine and Literature, Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation Series (Rowan & Littlefield, 2006) paperback $30. NEW.

George Lawless, Augustine of Hippo and His Monastic Rule (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

Robert A. Markus, “Augustine: In Defense of Christian Mediocrity,” in The End of Ancient Christianity, Canto Books (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Fine study of Augustine on marriage.

Henri Marrou, Saint Augustin et la fin de la culture antique (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1958). A classic; one of the finest studies of Augustine’s relationship to classical culture.

Bernard McGinn, "How Augustine Shaped Medieval Mysticism" (Saint Augustine Lecture 2005), Augustinian Studies 37, no. 1 (2006) 1-26. NEW.

Bernard McGinn, “Augustine: The Founding Father,” The Foundations of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century (New York: Crossroad, 1994) pp. 228-262; paperback, $25.

Joseph C. Schnaubelt & Frederick Van Fleteren, ed., Augustine in Iconography : History and Legend, Augustinian Historical Institute Series, vol. 4 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999).

Kevin Uhalde, Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) hardcover, $55. NEW.

13. LATER LATIN FATHERS: TEXTS & STUDIES

R.A. Markus, Gregory the Great and His World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) paperback, $23. Some have called Gregory (d.604) the first medieval pope. Like his medieval successors, Gregory was an able local administrator who repaired Rome’s aqueducts and fended off barbarian invaders; he also saw the papacy in a world-wide perspective, offering sage pastoral guidance to Christians in North Africa and initiating the great Christian mission to England. He also lived in a world that was falling apart: an empire collapsing around him, an Italy devastated by the Black Plague. He saw himself as pope for the endtimes—and spoke movingly of the meaning of suffering in his magisterial sermons on the Book of Job. This is the first full-length study of Gregory since F.H. Dudden’s magisterial work in 1905.

Boniface Ramsey, Ambrose, Early Christian Fathers (New York: Routledge, 1997) paperback, $32. This includes both a 60-page introduction to Ambrose’s life and a selection of some of his major works, such as On Naboth, On the Mysteries, and his hymns. It also includes a new translation of Paulinus of Milan’s biography of Ambrose.

J.N.D. Kelly, Jerome: His Life, Writings, and Controversies (reprint of 1975 edition: Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998). Jerome was the greatest biblical scholar of the ancient world and the famed translator of the Bible into Latin. His Vulgate became the standard Bible for the next thousand years. But Jerome was also a sharp-tongued and extremely ill-tempered man who provoked controversy wherever he lived. This is the classic biography.

Philip R. Amidon, trans., The Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia: Books 10 and 11 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) hardcover, $45.

John C. Cavadini, ed., Gregory the Great: a Symposium, Notre Dame Studies in Theology 2 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) paperback, $19.

Marcia L. Colish, Ambrose's Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man (Notre Dame: University of Notre Press, 2005) paperback, $16.

Catherine Conybeare, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) hardcover, $60.

Stephen Andrew Cooper, Marius Victorinus’ Commentary on Galatians, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) hardcover, $160.

Thomas M. Finn, Quodvultdeus of Carthage: The Creedal Homilies: Conversion in Fifth-Century North Africa, Ancient Christian Writers 60 (New York: Newman Press / Paulist Press, 2004) hardcover.

Martin Heinzelmann, Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002) hardcover, $60.

Mark Humphries, Communities of the Blessed: Social Environment and Religious Change in Northern Italy: 200-400, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) hardcover, $70.

David G. Hunter, Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) hardcover, $99. NEW.

Adam Kamesar, Jerome, Greek Scholarship, and the Hebrew Bible: A Study of the Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim, Oxford Classical Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) hardcover.

William E. Klingshirn, Caesarius of Arles: The Making of a Community in Late Antique Gaul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

William E. Klingshirn, ed., Caesarius of Arles: Life, Testament, Letters, Translated Texts for Historians 19 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994) paperback.

Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Ambrosiaster's Political Theology, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) hardcover, $90. Forthcoming.

John Marenbon, Boethius, Great Medieval Thinkers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) paperback, $20.

John R.C. Martyn, trans., The Letters of Gregory the Great, 2 vol. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004) paperback.

Marc Mastrangelo, The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2007) hardcover, $65. NEW.

Neil B. McLynn, Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, Transformation of the Classical Heritage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) hardback, $40. Rather speculative.

John Moorhead, Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World, The Medieval World (Longman Publishing, 1999) paperback, $25.

John Moorhead, Gregory the Great, Early Church Fathers (New York: Routledge, 2005) paperback, $29.

Stefan Rebenich, Jerome, Early Church Fathers (New York: Routledge, 2002) paperback, $32.

Craig A. Satterlee, Ambrose of Milan’s Method of Mystagogical Preaching (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002) paperback, $35.

Carole Straw, Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 14 (Berkeley: University of California, 1988) paperback, $30.

Dennis E. Trout, Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 27 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999) hardcover, $55.

Carolinne White, Early Christian Latin Poets, Early Church Fathers (New York: Routledge, 2000) paperback, $32. Valuable anthology of little-studied, but crucial poetry of the early Church.

Lionel Wickham, ed., Hilary of Poitiers: Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth Century, Translated Texts for Historians 25 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1998) paperback, $17.

Daniel H. Williams, Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Nicene-Arian Conflicts, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) hardback, $60.

1. AUGUSTINE: BIOGRAPHIES, SURVEYS & REFERENCE WORKS