Projects
Iuxta uestigia patrum. Augustine's exegesis of Paul's Letter to the Romans in the Venerable Bede's Collectio ex opusculis sancti Augustini in epistulas Pauli apostoli KU Leuven
During the Middle Ages, anthologies played a significant role in the diffusion of the theology and exegesis of Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The recapitulation of the vast oeuvre of the African Church Father into more manageable collections of excerpts started very early, possibly even during his lifetime. A particular kind of anthology is the Pauline commentary that is composed exclusively of fragments from the works of the bishop of Hippo, ...
Reception of John’s Gospel in North Africa (c. 325-533) Augustine of Hippo’s In Iohannis euangelium tractatus and Contemporary North African Sermons KU Leuven
This project seeks to recontextualize an early 5th-century work of Augustine of Hippo, In Iohannis euangelium tractatus (AD 405-420s), by examining African patristic Latin sermons on the Gospel of John. Our team investigates how these 124 ‘tractates’ of Augustine contributed to continuous North African tradition of preaching on John between ca. 325-533. We promote use of evidence from his other sermones, tractates, and enarrationes – as well ...
Reception of John’s Gospel in North Africa (c. 325-533). Augustine of Hippo’s In Iohannis euangelium tractatus and Contemporary North African Sermons KU Leuven
This project seeks to recontextualize an early 5th-century work of Augustine of Hippo, In Iohannis euangelium tractatus (AD 405-420s), by examining African patristic Latin sermons on the Gospel of John. Our team investigates how these 124 ‘tractates’ of Augustine contributed to continuous North African tradition of preaching on John between ca. 325-533. We promote use of evidence from his other sermones, tractates, and enarrationes – as well ...
Time in Augustine’s Theology: A Pluri-disciplinary Study of Augustine’s Time Theory KU Leuven
Augustine has reflected on the theme of time throughout his life. He leaves us many descriptions and discussions about time, which are diverse and inconsistent. This research aims to contribute a consensus by working on the text and reconstructing the context. It will collect all time discussions of Augustine and establish a reference network. After this, it will reveal the reception of Augustine’s time theory and its modern interpretations. ...
Augustine of Hippo’s Politics of Ordered Love. Order as a Key to the Political Perspectives Developed in De Ciuitate Dei KU Leuven
The sack of Rome by Alaric's Visigoths in 410 had huge symbolic significance. Many Christians, who conflated the fate of the Christianised Roman state with the fate of the Church, feared that the fall of Rome would also have an impact on the future of the Church. Pagan critics suggested that the city had been taken because the pagan rites that had once protected the city and the empire were no longer being observed, and because the spread of ...
The reception of Augustine and Pelagius in the Carolingian commentary on Romans preserved in Paris Bibl. Nat. lat. 11574. Cultural forgetting in medieval theories on grace, free will, and predestination. KU Leuven
Semper profice (s. 169.18): a contextual,comprehensive and chronological study of the theological concept of imago Dei in the thought of Augustine of Hippo KU Leuven
What is the image of God in the thought of Augustine? Approaches to this question remain fragmented. Accordingly, the present dissertation aims at offering a comprehensive analysis of Augustine’s thought on the image of God from the vantage point of the problem of belonging in the Church. That is, how do “many” become “one” (conf. 6.13) without destroying individuality, while safeguarding concord? The unprecedented identification of the ...
Augustine, John, and the Donatists: Reflections on the African Context, Biblical Interpretation, and Ecclesiological Polemics KU Leuven
This project examines two major contributing factors to the genesis and development of Augustine’s reception of John in the earliest of the Tractatus in Evangelium Iohannis. First, it traces the ‘pre-Augustinian’ readings of John’s Gospel in North Africa, in particular among Donatist theologians and homilists (ca.311-411 A.D.). How did Augustine interact with this external influence when he began his exegesis of John in ca. 405/7 ...
Augustine of Hippo’s ‘sermones de diversis’ (ss. 341-363): Textcritical study and analysis of the contents and Medieval reception of a corpus of moralizing/catechetical sermons KU Leuven
My project centres on Augustine’s sermons 341-363. Within the Church Father’s homiletic oeuvre these sermons form a unique corpus as they have an outspoken moral/catechetical focus. Ss. 341363 address diverse themes (penitence, almsgiving, misconduct, obedience…) and are among Augustine’s richest sermons for biographical, socio-religious and historical realia, thus forming a precious source of information on Augustine’s position as bishop, ...