Augustine and Liberal Education

Kim Paffenroth is chair of the Religious Studies Department and associate professor at Iona College.Kevin L. Hughes is associate professor in Department of Theology and Religious Studies and director of the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference at Villanova University.

This book tries to come to terms with a particular tradition of inquiry in the light of contemporary challenges to liberal education, through the renewal and reevaluation of Augustine's thought and writings. It is an interesting and thought-provoking volume, one that will have particular application to Catholic institutions of higher education, and even Protestant and secular colleges and universities as they seek to define what 'liberal Education' means in today's society.

• Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 List of ContributorsChapter 3 ForewardPart 4 I Education in the ConfessionsChapter 5 1 Bad Habits and Bad Company: Education and Evil in the ConfessionsChapter 6 2 Models of Teaching and Models of Learning in the ConfessionsChapter 7 3 Augustine'sConfessions as Pedagogy: Exercises in TransformationPart 8 II Education in Augustine's Other WorksChapter 9 4 Study as Love: Augustinian Vision and Catholic EducationChapter 10 5 The Bishop as TeacherChapter 11 6 The "Arts Reputed Liberal": Augustine on the Perils of Liberal EducationPart 12 III Teaching and Authority in AugustineChapter 13 7 Augustine's Pedagogy of Intellectual Liberation: Turning Students from the "Truth of Authority" to the "Authority of Truth"Chapter 14 8 The Limits of Augustine's Personal Authority: The Hermaneutics of Trust in De utilitate credendiChapter 15 9 Limit and Possibility: An Augustinian Counsel to AuthorityChapter 16 10 Augustine and English Protestants: Authority and Order, Coercion and Dissent in the Earthly CityPart 17 IV Liberal Education Since AugustineChapter 18 11 Reading without Moving Your Lips: The Role of the Solitary Reader in Liberal EducationChapter 19 12 The Motives for Liberal Education