"Literary 'Things Indifferent': The Shared
AugustinianismMatthews, "Post-medieval
Augustinianism," in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed.
[was] threatened, indeed, overwhelmed by a new culture that appeared to them shallow, corrupting, vulgar"; Jaeger describes John's writings as "a conservative, rearguard action." (11) Because of his
Augustinianism and Platonic skepticism, John doubted that laws, reason, or public institutions could control human sinfulness without the support of exemplary violence.
Making use of a neo-Platonizing
Augustinianism, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio would confer the fundamental lines of the Franciscan thought, whose content, predominantly patristic, would tend to prolong inside the Order.
For the most up to date look at Jan Hus and the major influences on his theology--Scripture,
Augustinianism, the Czech reform tradition and John Wyclif--see Thomas A.
Lastly, Hollingworth builds on his African/ European distinction to indicate the contours of Augustine's "
Augustinianism." "This is
Augustinianism," he writes, to "know that the whole of human life on earth is a passionate affair carried on with the wrong City--and in full view of the tragedy of this fact.
Then there are "Stoic-Augustinian models." "Commonplace
Augustinianism" holds that we inevitably experience disordered desires, and moral culpability only arises when we consent to these desires.
On the topic of Dante's debt to Augustine alone, Ardizzone's work is of great import: the parallels that she draws out between Dante's anthropology and the Bishop of Hippo's doctrine of the interior word in the De Trinitate will be essential to any future research on Dante's
Augustinianism. Simone Marchesi's (2011) contemporaneous monograph, for example, ignores the De Trinitate and so fails to account for Augustine's centrality to Dante's anthropology.
Rosemary Sheed, London: Chapman, 1967; and
Augustinianism and Modern Theology London: Chapman, 1969.
Again Heidegger is speaking against convention, in this case, the conventional placing of Augustine which locates and objectifies him as a literary historical figure within the strand of Greek and Neo-Platonic thinking: "
Augustinianism has a twofold meaning: philosophically, it means Christian Platonism turned against Aristotle; theologically, a certain conception of the doctrine of sins and of grace." (115) Brief notes outline the limitations of Ernst Troeltsch, Adolf von Harnack, and Wilhelm Dilthey's interpretations of Augustine, with the following statement typifying the compression in the text: "Dilthey says that what Augustine wished to accomplish was accomplished first by Kant and by Schleiermacher.