The Intellectual Development of St Augustine in the Confessions Lecture

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Dan Attrell gives a lecture concerning the intellectual journey undertaken by St. Augustine, the famed bishop of Hippo, from Manichaeism to philosophy, to Neoplatonism, then ultimately to Christianity. • www.themodernhermeticist.com • • Bibliography • Beatrice, Pier Franco. Quosdam Platonicorum Libros: The Platonic Readings of Augustine in Milan. Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Sep., 1989), pp. 248-281. • Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo. University of California Press, 2000. (http://amzn.to/1Qe2rKG) • Camargo, Martin. “Non solum sibi sed aliis etiam: Neoplatonism and Rhetoric in Saint Augustine's ‘De doctrina Christiana.’” Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn, 1998), pp.393-408. • Casey, Robert P. “Clement of Alexandria and the Beginnings of Christian Platonism.” The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 1925), pp. 39-101. • De Vogel, C. J. “Platonism and Christianity: A Mere Antagonism or a Profound Common Ground?” Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 1-62. • Inge, W.R. The Permanent Influence of Neoplatonism upon Christianity. The American Journal of Theology, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr., 1900), pp. 328-344. • McCabe, Joseph. “The Conversion of St. Augustine.” International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1902): 450-459. • Monroe, Mervin. “Augustine's Use of Scripture.” Church History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1945), pp. 188-200. • Pavry, Jal Dastur C. “Manichaeism. A Rival of Zoroastrianism and Christianity” The Journal of Religion, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr., 1937), pp. 161-169. • Pourrat, Pierre. Christian Spirituality, Vol. 1: From the Time of Our Lord till the Dawn of the Middle Ages. Forgotten Books (2009), pp. 208-216. (http://amzn.to/1Qe2N40) • Quasten, Johannes. Ancient Christian Writers - The Works Of The Fathers In Translation - St Augustine: Against The Academics. Quasten Press (2007), pp. 19-23. • Raudenbush-Olmsted, Wendy. “Philosophical Inquiry and Religious Transformation in Boethius's ‘The Consolation of Philosophy’ and Augustine's ‘Confessions.’” The Journal of Religion, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 14-35. • Stock, Brian. Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation. Harvard University Press, 1996. (http://amzn.to/1Pykk1W) • Taylor, John Hammond. “St. Augustine and the ‘Hortensius’ of Cicero.” Studies in Philology, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jul., 1963), pp. 487-498. • Van Oort, Johannes. “The Young Augustine’s Knowledge of Manichaeism: An Analysis of the Confessiones.” Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 62 (2008): 441-466. • Wassmer, Thomas A. “The Trinitarian Theology of Augustine and His Debt to Plotinus.” The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Oct., 1960), pp. 261-268.

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