Augustine and History

Christopher T. Daly is visiting assistant professor of core humanities, Villanova University.John Doody is professor of philosophy, Robert M. Birmingham endowed chair in core humanities, and director of the Villanova Center for Liberal Education, Villanova University.Kim Paffenroth is associate professor of religious studies and chair, department of religious studies, Iona College.

Single essays may interest philosophers or historians.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 I. Augustine's Theory and Practice of HistoriographyChapter 3 Chapter 1. On the Use and Disadvantage of History for the AfterlifeChapter 4 Chapter 2. History as Witness: Augustine's Interpretation of the History of Israel inContra Faustum andDe trinitateChapter 5 Chapter 3. Augustine and the Rhetoric of Roman DeclinePart 6 II. Augustine's Place in HistoryChapter 7 Chapter 4. He Promised Much and Did It All: Augustine and HistoriansChapter 8 Chapter 5. Dissent and the Death Penalty: Developing a Comparative PerspectiveChapter 9 Chapter 6. The Wage of Sin is Orthodoxy: TheConfessions of Saint Augustine in Bayle'sDictionnairePart 10 III. Comparisons of Augustine and Later HistoriansChapter 11 Chapter 7. Augustine and Hegel on the History of RomeChapter 12 Chapter 8. A True History of Ourselves: Augustine, Carlyle, and the Case for BiographyChapter 13 Chapter 9. Augustine and Ricoeur on the Circle of Time and NarrativeChapter 14 Chapter 10. Book 18 ofThe City of God, Bianchini'sUniversal History and theNew Science of VicoChapter 15 Chapter 11. Propaganda and the Pornography of Cataclysm: Augustine and Luigi Guicciardini'sThe Sack of Rome