The Rhetoric of St. Augustine of Hippo: "De Doctrina Christiana" and the Search for a Distinctly Christian Rhetoric (review)

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-90
Author(s):  
Calvin L. Troup
Keyword(s):  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana

scholarly journals AVGVSTINVS HIPONENSIS, VIR CHRISTIANUS, DICENDI PERITUS: Análise das influências clássicas na proposta de formação oratória agostiniana

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Ivan Baycer Junior
Keyword(s):  
Title Page ◽  
Christian Formation ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
Fourth Book ◽  
The Ideal

<div class="page" title="Page 42"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Neste trabalho expor-se-á uma análise das influências clássicas presentes na proposta de formação oratória agostiniana, a ser desenvolvida paralelamente ao estudo das concepções de retórica no seio do cristianismo. Buscando-se observar que a apresentação elaborada por Agostinho de Hipona à eloquência clássica reflete simultaneamente a repulsa por seu passado e as concepções herdadas pela formação cristã. Desta forma, perceber-se-á que o antigo retor propõe bases para uma eloquência não artificiosa, cujas bases espelham as concepções paulinas </span><span>– </span><span>profundamente influenciadas pelo platonismo </span><span>– </span><span>e a herança retórica latina, representada principalmente por Cícero. Proposta desenvolvida no decorrer do quarto livro do tratado <em>De doctrina christiana</em>, foco deste estudo, onde se vê Agostinho refletir e embasar o ideal de orador simples, de fala sábia e não artificiosa. </span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><strong>AVGVSTINVS HIPONENSIS, VIR CHRISTIANUS, DICENDI PERITUS: Analysis of classical influences in the proposal of Augustinian oratorical training</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><span>This work will expose an analysis of classical influences present in the proposal of Augustinian oratorical training, being developed in parallel with the study of concepts of rhetoric within Christianity. Aiming to note that the presentation prepared by Augustine of Hippo to the classical eloquence simultaneously reflects the rejection to his past and the ideas inherited by the Christian formation. Thus, it will realize that the old rhetorician proposes bases for a non artificial eloquence, whose bases reflect the Pauline conceptions </span><span>– </span><span>strongly influenced by Platonism </span><span>– </span><span>and the Latin rhetorical heritage, represented mainly by Cicero. Proposal developed during the fourth book of the treatise De doctrina Christiana, the focus of this study, where we see Augustine to reflect and to base the ideal of simple orator, with wise speech and non artificial. </span></p><p><span><strong>Keywords:</strong> Christianity; Latin Patristics; Augustine of Hippo; Rhetoric. </span></p></div></div></div><p><span><br /></span></p></div></div></div>

Achard of St. Victor (d. 1171) and the Eclipse of the Arithmetic Model of the Trinity

Traditio ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 101-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Albertson
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Trinity

In the first book of De doctrina Christiana, Augustine of Hippo famously teaches that only the Trinity is to be enjoyed; all other things and even people are to be used toward this singular end. The brevity of Augustine's passing remarks on the Trinity gives no hint that he will later devote many pages to the topic. He writes:These three have the same eternal nature, the same unchangeableness, the same majesty, the same power. In the Father there is unity, in the Son equality, and in the Holy Spirit a harmony of unity and equality. And the three are all one because of the Father, all equal because of the Son, and all in harmony because of the Holy Spirit.

scholarly journals The notion of language deviations in St. Augustine’s Ars pro fratrum mediocritate breuiata

2019 ◽  
pp. e02710
Author(s):  
Fábio Fortes ◽  
Fernando Adão de Sá Freitas
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

The notion of linguistic correction (Latinitas) with which Augustine of Hippo introduced his Ars pro fratrum mediocritate breuiata seems central to the philosopher's grammatical discussion, not only because of the various examples that Augustine offers about the definitions of barbarism and soloecism at the end of this treatise, but also because the subject of correction (Latinitas) and, consequently, of the deviations of language (barbarismus and soloecismus), are also presented in other non-grammatical works: The confessions, De ordine and De doctrina Christiana. In this article, we propose to evaluate the conceptual outlines of the notions of barbarism and solecism in the work of Augustine, considering, on the one hand, the definitions present in the Ars breuiata, and, on the other, the way in which Augustine also presents them in his philosophical work. We propose that the normative orientation contained in the text of ars must be relativised by ethical questions that arise from the comments present in the Confessions, the De ordine and the De doctrina Christiana.

Three Levels of Style in Augustine of Hippo and Gregory of Nazianzus

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Čelica Milovanović-Barham
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Complete Agreement ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
The West ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana

Abstract: In Book 4 of De doctrina Christiana St. Augustine suggests that the three levels of style in Christian oratory should reflect the level of emotional impact on the audience, which would result in frequent variation through the course of the speech. Augustine's literary theory seems to be in complete agreement with contemporary oratorical practice, not only Latin, in the West, but Greek too—witness St. Gregory of Nazianzus, whose Oration 42, The Last Farewell,is used as an example in this article. Finally, a comparison between Augustine's views and those of some later Greek rhetoricians suggests that he may have been influenced as much by their ideas as by his acknowledged source and predecessor, Cicero.

Vendido al pecado por medio del origo. Agustín de Hipona y el comercio de esclavos en la Roma tardía

Augustinus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134
Author(s):  
Susanna Elm ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
Slave Traders ◽  
Women And Children

Toward the end of his life, Augustine of Hippo wrote two letters (10* and 24*) to legal experts in which he reacted to recent attempts by slave-traders to sell 120 Roman North Africans «overseas» as slaves. Prompted by the fact that members of his clergy had offered them refuge in the episcopal compound at Hippo, Augustine sought to clarify the actual personal legal status of these men, women, and children. Were they slaves, coloni, or illegally captured free Roman citizens? What were their actual temporal, legal, personal conditions? Such concerns surrounding the condicio hominum temporalis, brought to light as a result of selling human beings, and their relevance and ramifications for Augustine’s thoughts and actions, especially with regard to the sin to which we are sold per originem of the First Man, are the focus of my remarks.

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