"The Letter Killeth": Redeeming Time in Augustine's Understanding of the Authority of Scripture (Studia Traditionis Theologiae, 51)

Table of Contents\nPreface\nAbbreviations\n	1. Abbreviations for Biblical Materials\n	2. Other abbreviations\n	3. References to the works of Augustine\nIntroduction\n	Timeless Word and Words in Time\n	Methodological Considerations\n	Outline of the Work\nChapter 1: “… Nisi me catholicae ecclesiae conmoueret auctoritas”\n	Authority, Tradition and Time\n	1. Authority in Common Parlance Today\n	2. Authority in Antiquity\n	3. Tension of “the Time” in Aureum Saeculum and Consummatio Saeculi\n	4. Trado and the Adaptation of Auctoritas in the Early Church\n	5. After Tempora Christiana: Devolution of Traditions and Authority\n	Concluding Remarks\nChapter 2: “Si quam dubitationem attulerit latinorum interpretum infinita uarietas”\n	Physical Evolution of the Scriptures and its Theological Implications\n	1. Vetus Latina — A Brief Sketch of Augustine’s “Common Edition” of the Scriptures\n	2. The Septuagint, Vetus Latina and Hebraica Veritas\n	3. The Vetus Latina and Traditions of the Church Regarding the Septuagint\n	4. Emergence of the “New Testament” and the Notion of a “Complete Canon”\n	Concluding Remarks\nChapter 3: “Our Hearts are Restless until they Rest in You”\n	The Longing for the Fullness of Time in the Confessiones\n	1. The Ambivalence of Authorities in Augustine\n	2. Augustine’s Tryst with the Authority of Scripture\n	3. Discerning the Principle behind the Authority of Scripture\n	4. Implications of Ambrose’s Principle in Augustine’s Reading of the Scriptures\n	Concluding Remarks\nChapter 4: “Exercet autem hoc tempore et purgat”\n	Discerning the Signs of the Time in the De doctrina Christiana\n	1. Tyconius and the Socio-Political and Religious Context of the “Donatist” Controversy\n	2. Discerning the Underlying Theological Issue in the “Complex” Donatist Controversy\n	3. Engaging Tyconius’s Liber Regularum in the De doctrina Christiana\n	4. Fitting Tyconius’s Liber Regularum into Augustine’s Wider Exegetical Concerns\n	Concluding Remarks\nChapter 5: “Instead of doing what I had asked you, you thought up a new argument”\n	The Emergence of Paul in the Correspondence between Augustine and Jerome\n	1. The “Great Prefaces” to the Correspondence\n	2. Jerome and the Notions of Authority in the Correspondence\n	3. Augustine and the Notion of Scriptural Authority in the Correspondence\n	4. From Signa to Res in the “New Argument”\n	5. Humility, Caritas and Authority\n	Concluding Remarks\nChapter 6: “Ea ipsa est simplex fides, qua credimus”\n	Retrieving Paul Through the Book of Genesis\n	1. “Paul” of the Manicheans\n	2. Augustine’s Early Responses to the Manicheans\n	3. Retrieving Paul through the Book of Genesis\n	Concluding Remarks\nChapter 7: “There we shall rest and see”\n	Beyond “Time” and “the Authority of Scripture” in the De Civitate Dei\n	1. “Rome” as an Ideological Construct\n	2. “Eternal Rome” in the “Collective” and “Personal” Memories: Reading Confessiones as a Subversive Literary Device\n	3. Of Heroes and Martyrs, Guardians and Sanctuaries: Interrogating Rome via Milan\n	4. What is Time? Discerning the Authority of Scripture in the De civitate Dei\n	Concluding Remarks\nChapter 8: Not “Perfection” but “Progress towards the Better”\n	The Retractationes as the Epitome of Crede ut Intellegas\n	1. The Indispensability of the Scriptures\n	2. The Human Aspects of the Scriptures\n	3. Retractationes as the Epitome of Crede ut Intellegas — The Theological Basis and Implications of “Progress towards the Better” in Augustine’s Scriptural Odyssey\n	4. Beyond time, beyond “the Authority of Scripture”\n	Conclusions\nBibliography\n	1. Ancient sources\n	2. Modern Authors\nIndices\n	1. Index of Scriptures\n	2. Index of the Works of Augustine\n	3. Index of Other Ancient Authors\n	4. Index of Modern Authors