• An Augustinian Theology of the Heart’s Privacy 

  Kolbet, Paul R. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|A contested line between the public and the private is well attested in Augustine’s writings and runs through every human society and individual human heart. What Augustine calls “privacy” involves a movement where ...

• Keeping Custody of the Eyes: Dangers of the Gaze in Augustine’s Consideration of Visual Images 

  Jensen, Robin M. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|Augustine’s concern about the influence of witnessing brutal spectacles upon the human soul is expressed when he recounts his friend Alypius’s addiction to the arena in Confessions, Book 6. He elaborates this ...

• Augustine’s Changed Interpretation of Romans 7 and His Doctrine of Inherited Sin 

  Burns, Patout (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|During Augustine’s first decade of commenting on the Pauline literature, he regularly used the mortality consequent upon the failure of the first humans in the paradise and the desires that arose from this weakened ...

• “Stretch Yourself on the Rack of Your Heart” (S. 13.7): Reality, Spirituality, and Emotions in Augustine’s Imagery 

  Drobner, Hubertus R. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|When transmitted in writing sermons lose most of the actual contemporary context of their oral delivery. However, the rhetorical images used by the preacher may provide a key to access state of mind and emotions ...

• Orthodox Perspectives on Saint Augustine 

  Roddy, Nicolae (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|It is not unusual in Orthodox circles to hear Augustine of Hippo mentioned in polemical if not pejorative terms – that is, if discussed at all. Until very recently, the prevailing general narrative in modern times ...

• Love Actually: Modeling Amor in Augustine’s De catechizandis rudibus 

  Cameron, Michael (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|A Carthaginian deacon named Deogratias asked Augustine for advice on how to improve his teaching for inquirers. Augustine obliged by writing De catechizandis rudibus (On Instructing Beginners), a masterful survey ...

• From Exemplum to Sacramentum: Augustine’s Eschatological Hermeneutic of Salvation 

  Daley, Brian E., S.J. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|Augustine always cherished a strong hope in the fulfillment of human life and history and in God’s coming judgment. He remained agnostic about the time of history’s end, or what the signs of its nearness would be, ...

• Evil and the God of Augustine 

  Kenney, John Peter (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|In the introduction to the book he was writing at the time of his death, Bill Harmless spoke of Augustine’s meditations on evil and its origins in the self-made darkness of the human heart. This paper reflects on ...

• Expanding the Heart: Graced Desire 

  Fitzgerald, Allan (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|This article presents Augustine’s reflections on how the heart is stretched by welcoming God in the midst of difficulty. Divine initiative and human response are intertwined in beautifully mysterious ways. This ...

• Not so Alien and Unnatural After All: The role of Privation and Deification in Augustine’s Sermons 

  Rosenburg, Stanley P. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|One typically reads that deification, or theosis, was the view held among the Eastern churches and something quite foreign to the West. In such works one finds Augustine presented as the preeminent champion of ...

• Augustine’s Tragic Vision 

  Blowers, Paul M. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|This essay explores Augustine’s capacity to accommodate a tragic vision of human existence within his interpretation of the Christian revelation. Broadly speaking, for Augustine, sacred history combines the tragic ...

• Doxology and Loving Knowledge in Augustine’s De doctrina christiana Book 1 

  Harrison, Carol (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|This paper will explore why Augustine persists in using the categories of signs and things and use and enjoyment, even though they give rise to so many difficulties and proved so inimical to what he actually wanted ...

• In Memoriam: Memory and Imitation in Augustine and Athanasius 

  Smith, Zachary B. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|Compositions moved Augustine, and nowhere is that more evident than in his Confessions. I argue that in this late-fourth-century biography-cum-protreptic, Augustine tries to replace earlier philosophical (Cicero’s ...

• Augustine and the Anthropocene 

  O'Keefe, John J. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

  Abstract|The term "Anthropocene” has recently emerged as part of an effort to name the geological impact of modern humans. For some, this “recent human age” is a “Good Anthropocene,” an opportunity for humans to finally ...

• Publications of William Harmless, S.J. 

  Simkins, Ronald A. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

• Introduction 

  O'Keefe, John J. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

• Augustine & the Mystery of the Human Heart (opus imperfectum). Chapter 1: The Voice & the Word 

  Harmless, William, S.J. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

• Desert Silence: Why the Apophthegmata Patrum is Reticent about Christology 

  Harmless, William, S.J. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

• Augustine & the Mystery of the Human Heart (opus imperfectum). Introduction 

  Harmless, William, S.J. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

• Abbreviations of the Works of Augustine 

  Simkins, Ronald A. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2018)

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