Bibliography, Partial

Sept 4, 2008

NB This bibliography is a work in progress. It does not claim to be exhaustive.

General Web Resources

Christian Classic Ethereal Library,

Dictionary of History of Ideas,

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,

Internet History Source Book, Ed. Paul Halsall,

Augustine

Augustine, Augustine, Confessions, Trans. Henry Chadwick, Oxford: OxfordUniversity

NB: the New City Press version, Trans. Mary Boulding would also be okay.

______, The Trinity, Trans. Edmond Hill, New City Press, 1991.

______, The City of God, Trans. Marcus Dods, New York: Modern Library, 1994.

______, On Free Choice of the Will, Trans. Benjamin and Hackstaff, Prentice Hall, 1964.

______, On Christian Teaching, Trans. R.P.H. Green, Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press,

2008.

______On Literal Interpretation of Genesis,Trans. Edmund Hill, New York: New City,

2002.

______On Christian Belief, Trans. Edmund Hill, New York: New City, 2005.

______The Monastic Rules, Trans. Sr. Agatha Mary and Gerald Bonner, New York:

New City, 2004.

______“Sermon 133,”Sermons, 148-183 (on the New Testament),Trans. Edmund Hill,

New York: New City, 2006.

______“Against the Epistle of Mani, which they call Fundamental” in NPNF Series 1,

Vol 4, Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994, pp129-150.

William Harmless, Bibliography of Augustine and the Latin West, available at 2005.

Method (L1, L2, L3)

David Tracy,The Analogical Imagination. New York: Crossroad, 2002.

Hans Robert Jauss, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception, Trans. Timothy Bahti, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982.

Arthur Lovejoy, Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Cambridge:; HarvardUniversity Press, 1976.

Hans Gadamer, Truth and Method, Trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald Marshall, Continuum Publishing, 2005.

Jurgen Habermas, “A Review of Gadamer's Truth and Method.” Understanding and Social Inquiry, ed. Fred R. Dallmayr and Thomas McCarthy. 1977. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Pages 335-363.

Gadamer and Habermas

E.D. Hirsch, Validity in Interpretation, Appendix A. Objective Interpretation, New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, 1967, pp 209-44.

Donald Kelley, Title: Horizons of Intellectual History: Retrospect, Circumspect, Prospect Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1987), pp. 143-169 University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gerard Kelly, “The Reception of Doctrine: An Appropriation of Hans Robert Jauss’s Reception Aesthetics and Literary Hermeneutics,”Theological Studies, December 1, 1998, 59:4, 754-790.

Reception Study from Literary Theory to Cultural Studies, Ed. James Machor and Philip Goldstein, New York:; Routledge, 2001.

Wolfgang Iser, The Art of Reading, Baltimore: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press, 1978.

Robert Holub, Reception Theory A Critical Introduction, New York: Methuen, 1984.

Brian Stock, Listening for the Text, Baltimore: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press, 1990.

______, After Augustine, The Meditative Reader and the Text, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Philosophy in History, Ed. Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind, Quentin Skinner, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1984.

Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth, Forward, New York: Doubleday, 2007.

Meredith Gill,Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo,Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2005.

Joachim Küpper, “Philology and Theology in Petrarch”, Modern Language Notes MLN

122.1 (2007) 133-147

Patrick Riley. Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre.Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004.

Garth Matthews, Thought’s Ego in Augustine and Descartes, Ithaca: Cornell, 1992.

Stephen Menn, Descartes and AugustineCambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1998.

Peter Lombard, Sentences and Commentary,

Anthony Lane, John Calvin: Student of the Church Fathers, Continuum International Publishing Group, 1999. NB contains extensive bibliography of Calvin and Fathers.

Illumination (L4)

Augustine and Postmodernism: Confession And Circumfession,Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion, Ed. John Caputo and Michael Scanlon, Bloomington: IndianaUniversity Press, 2005.

Lecture notes Augustine and Boethius

Circumfessions in Bennington, Geoffrey.Jacques Derrida /Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida ; translated by Geoffrey Bennington. Chicago :University of Chicago Press,1993.

Petrarch, The Secret,

______, “Ascent of Mt Ventoux”,

Kelly, Christopher. "Rousseau's Confessions." The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau. Ed. Patrick Riley. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2001.

Batnitzky, Leora. "Revelation, Language, and Commentary: From Buber to Derrida." The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy. Eds. Michael L. Morgan and Peter Eli Gordon. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2007.

Scientific Method (L5)

Benedict XVI, “Regensburg Speech”

Maurice Finocchiaro,Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992,Berkeley:University of California Press,c2005.

Alister McGrath, A Scientific Theology, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006

Galileo “Letter to grand Duchess Christina”

Mario Biagioli, Galileo. Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of AbsolutismChicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Aquinas, On Physics, Q151.A74.T4631

______, Disputed Questions,“On the Eternity of the World,”

John Paul II Address 1992 on Galileo

Ratzinger 1990 comments on Galileo

Voltaire,“Letter on Newton and Gravity,”

Zenit article on Sapienza

Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2007.

Space, Time and Memory (L6)

H. Barreau, “Living-Time and Lived Time: Rereading St. Augustine,” KronoScope, 4:1, (2004) , pp. 39-68.

Barash, Jeffrey Andrew, “The Sources of Memory,” Journal of the History of Ideas 58.4 (1997) 707-717.

The Treasure Chest of Mnemosyne, Ed Uwe Fleckner, Verlag der Kunst, 1998.

Sheri Katz, “Mind and Memory, An Introduction to Augustine’s Epistemology,” available at

Alan Hill, “The Triumphs of Memory: Petrarch, Augustine and Wordsworth’s Ascent of Snowdon,” Review of English Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Volume 57,Number 229, April 2006 , pp. 247-258(12)

Martin Heidegger, The Phenomenology of Religious Life, Trans. Matthais Fritsch and Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004) pp121-148

Trinity (L7)

John Johnson, “Speaking of the Triune God: Augustine, Aquinas and the Language of Analogy,” Concordia Theological Quarterly, 67:3/4 (July/Oct 2003), pp 215-27.

Anselm, Monologion,

The Cambridge Companion to Anselm, Davies and Brian Leftow (eds.),New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2004.

Thomas Paine,“On the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion” available at

Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to John Adams, Platonism in Christianity”, July 15, 1814

Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to Benjamin Rush, Syllabus of Christianity”

Thomas Jefferson, “Letterto William Short, Epicurus and Jesus”

Bertram Schwarzbach, Voltaire’s Old Testament Criticism, Geneve: Droz, 1971

Drayton Benner, “Augustine and Karl Rahner on the Relationship between the Immanent Trinity and the Economic Trinity ,“ International Journal of Systematic Theology, 9: 1, January 2007 , pp. 24-38.

Comparison of Augustine and Aquinas on Trinity, syllabus at Georgetown,

Michael Hanby. Augustine and Modernity. London: Routledge, 2003.

Virtue and Happiness (L8)

Mark Jordan, “Theology and Philosophy,” Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, Ed. Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump, New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1993, pp 232-51.

Jean Porter, “Virtue,” Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, Ed. By Gilbert Meilaender, William Werpehowski, Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2005, pp 205-219.

John Stuart Mill,Utilitarianism, 1863, available at

G.E.M. Anscombe, “Modern Moral Philosophy” 1958 available at

Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi, 2008,

Darrin McMahon,Happiness: A History,New York:Atlantic Monthly Press,2005.

______, “From the Happiness of Virtue to the Virtue of Happiness, 400BC – 1780 AD,” Daedelus, 133:2, Spring 2004, pp 5-17.

Heiko Oberman, “The Pursuit of Happiness, Calvin between Humanism and Reformation,” Humanity and Divinity in the Renaissance and Reformation: Essays in Honor of Charles Trinkhaus, ed John O’Malley, et al, Leiden: Briull, 1993.

Lorenzo Valla, On Pleasure, excerpts at

Matthew Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal Leibniz and the Cultivation of Virtue, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Evil and Theodicy (L9)

G. W. Leibniz, Theodicy, Trans. E. M. Huggard, La Salle: Open Court, 1998.

Horton Davies, The Vigilant God: Providence in the Thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin and Barth, New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

Thomas Aquinas, On Evil, Trans. Richard Regan, edited with an introduction and

notes by Brian Davies. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2003.

Alford Fred, “Augustine, Arendt, and Melanie Klein: The (De)Privation of Evil,” Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 10:1 (April 2005) pp44-60.

John Hick, Evil and the God of Love, San Francisco: Harper Row, 1966.

Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought, Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2002.

The Problem of Evil, A reader, Ed. Mark Larrimore, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

Hohyun Sohn. “The beauty of hell? Augustine's aesthetic theodicy and its critics.” Theology Today April 2007;64(1):47-57

Marilyn McCord Adams. Horrendous evils and the goodness of God. Ithaca, NY : CornellUniversity Press, 1999.

Charles Journet, The Meaning of Evil, Trans. Michael Barry, New York: Kennedy, 1963.

Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil. Trans.Emerson Buchanan. New York:Harper & Row, 1967.

Albert Camus, The Plague, Trans. Stuart Gilbert. New York: Vintage, 1991.

Justification (L10)

Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein. Ed. Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain,London: SCM Press, 2004.

Oliver Crisp, “Augustinian Universalism,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 53:3 (June 2003) pp 127-145.

Church and Society (L11)

Josefson, Jim. "A Genealogy of Republicanism in Christian Thought"Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, Apr 12, 2007 Online PDF>. 2008-06-09 (saved)

Ratzinger, A Turning Point for Europe?: The Church in the Modern World-Assessment and Forecast

Dyson The PilgrimCity

Ecclesiology (L12)

Signs, Language, Sacraments (L13)

John Flyer, “St. Augustine, Genesis and the Origin of Language,” St. Augustine and His Influence in the Middle Ages,” Ed. Edward King and Jacqueline Schaefer (Sewanee Tennessee: Press of New South, 1988) 69-78.

John Schaeffer, “The Dialectic of Orality and Literacy: The Case of Book 4 of Augustine's De doctrina Christiana,” PMLA, Vol. 111, No. 5 (Oct., 1996), pp. 1133-1145

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Trans. G. E. M. Anscombe, New York: Macmillan, 1966.