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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Human autonomy/heteronomy in his Sermones ad populum (Sermons to the people) Augustine preaches for Valerius , CARLE VAN LOO (1755), Paris, Notre Dame des Victoires 1. Central Research Question Twofold Relevance

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Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

Human autonomy/heteronomy in his Sermones ad populum (Sermons to the people)

Augustine preaches for Valerius, CARLE VAN LOO (1755), Paris, Notre Dame des Victoires

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  • 1. Central Research Question

Twofold Relevance

  • Latin sermons, 16 centuries old:

Relevant research?

  • Twofold importance:
  • A. Historical-contextual.
  • B. Fundamental content.

ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ (1636-1691) Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte

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  • 1. Central Research Question
  • A. A man of our time / for our time?
  • Transition period:
  • Antiquity.
  • Middle Ages.
  • Similarities:
  • Political instability.
  • Economic crisis.
  • Religious diversity:
  • Previously tolerance.
  • Now fundamentalist excesses.
  • Turning point: uncertainty.
  • Child 4th-5th c. & our contemporary.

Augustine preaches (10th-11th C.) Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional

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  • 1. Central Research Question
  • B. Reflections about human autonomy/heteronomy
  • All solely on my own?
  • Augustine against ‘pelagians’:
  • Overstate capacities man.
  • Forget grace.
  • Scharp polemics.
  • Later reception:
  • Pessimistic.
  • Only human failure.
  • ‘Everything is grace’.
  • Research question: correct?

Augustine crushes ‘pelagians’ (1640) Leuven, Frontispiece Augustinus, C. Jansenius

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  • 2. Breakthrough / innovation

Discovery Sermones ad populum

  • 580 Sermones: ‘audio recordings’.
  • No written preparation.
  • Stenographers.
  • Not revised.
  • No scientific interest:
  • ‘Repetitive’ & ‘not original’.
  • ‘Pastoral moralistic talks’.
  • But relevant:
  • Retorical construction.
  • Complex content.
  • Necessary for complete picture.

Augustine preaches (14th C.) Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial

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  • 2. Breakthrough / innovation

Specific genre Sermones

  • Genre Sermones:
  • Urge to ethical life.
  • Not effective: ‘everything grace’.
  • Human role central!
  • Research question:

Results difference in genres in different understanding?

OTTAVIANO NELLI (1375-1444/50) Augustine preaches Gubbio, Chiesa di Sant'Agostino

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  • 2. Breakthrough / innovation

More balanced than only grace

  • Sermons:
  • No denial grace.
  • Emphasis ethical responsabilities.
  • Anti-pelagian writings:
  • Emphasis grace.
  • No denial human freedom.
  • New vision on Augustine:
  • Greater complexity.
  • More balanced.

Augustine preaches (Padova, 1500) London, British Library

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  • 3. Potential applications / impact

Re-evaluation reception/interpretation Augustine

  • ‘All is grace’:
  • Too one-sided.
  • Onnuanced from anti-Pelagian

stance.

Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek,

  • Cod. 12: Enarrationes in psalmos

1143-1178

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  • 3. Potential applications / impact

Sermones

  • Integration of sermons.
  • Genre sensitivity:
  • Totality oeuvre.
  • Destinction genres:
  • Specific objectives.
  • Specific target groups.

THEODORE DE BRY (16th C.) Augustine preaches Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale

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Thank you! Questions?

Augustine preaches (12th C.) Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana