Jerusalem and Babylon: A Study Into Augustine's City of God and the Sources of His Doctrine of the Two CitiesBRILL, 1991 - 427 pages Although many studies have been devoted to Augustine's "City of God" and its most important theme, viz. the antithesis between the "civitas Dei" and the "terrena civitas," until now no consensus has been reached concerning the sources of this doctrine. Was Augustine decisively influenced by Manichaeism, by (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa or Philo, by the Donatist Tyconius? Or should we look in another direction and refer to preceding Christian, Jewish, and especially to archaic Jewish-Christian traditions? This lucidly written books opens with a survey of the research carried out so far on the aim, structure and central theme of the "City of God," Chapter 2 analyzes the essentials of Augustine's life, of his "City of God," and of his doctrine of the two cities. Making use of one of the recently discovered letters of Augustine in Chapter 3 the author describes the "City of God" as an apology and as a catechetical work. Chapter 4 provides an investigation into the possible sources of Augustine's doctrine of the two cities in Manichaeism, in (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa and Philo, and in the works of Tyconius. The idea of two antithetical cities proves to be present most clearly in writings in which, closely related to Jewish thinking, archaic Christian concepts occupy an important place. In a final chapter some pertinent remarks are made on Jewish and Jewish-Christian influences on pre-Augustinian Christianity in Africa. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1 Importance of Augustine | 1 |
Survey of research and unresolved questions | 4 |
Composition title and method of this study | 15 |
CHAPTER TWO AUGUSTINE AND HIS CITY OF GOD A THE AUTHOR | 18 |
Classical education and knowledge of Greek | 21 |
The young Catholic | 25 |
Ciceros Hortensius | 31 |
The Manichaean | 33 |
Using and enjoying | 142 |
A third neutral city? | 151 |
CHAPTER THREE | 164 |
THE CITY OF GOD AS A CATECHETICAL WORK | 175 |
CONCLUSIONS | 196 |
Mani and Manichaeism | 208 |
Similarities and differences | 222 |
Manis JewishChristian background | 229 |
Neoplatonic Christians | 47 |
The Catholic bishop | 55 |
B THE CITY OF GOD | 57 |
Contents | 63 |
Composition | 74 |
Why twentytwo books? | 77 |
Not an occasional work | 86 |
Characteristics | 88 |
THE DOCTRINE OF THE TWO CITIES | 93 |
The concept civitas | 102 |
A development towards the concept civitas? | 108 |
The city of God opposed to the earthly city | 115 |
Jerusalem and Babylon | 118 |
The city of God and the Church | 123 |
The earthly city | 129 |
B PLATONISM STOICISM AND PHILO | 235 |
Platonism Stoicism or Philo as a source? | 244 |
Similarities and differences | 252 |
Tyconius as the source? | 260 |
Tyconius on two corpora Beatus et al on two cities | 267 |
CHRISTIAN JEWISH AND JEWISHCHRISTIAN TRA | 274 |
Lactantius Cyprian and Tertullian | 284 |
The Shepherd of Hermas | 301 |
New Testament Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepi | 312 |
A catechetical tradition? | 322 |
E CONCLUSIONS | 351 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 360 |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 372 |
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