The idea of reform: its impact on Christian thought and action in the age of the Fathers

Frontmatter (page N/A)
INTRODUCTION (page 1)
PART ONE VARIETIES OF RENEWAL IDEOLOGY AND THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM (page 7)
CHAPTER I. DISTINCTION OF THE IDEA OF REFORM FROM OTHER IDEAS OF RENEWAL (page 9)
CHAPTER II. DEFINITION OF THE IDEA OF REFORM (page 35)
PART TWO THE EARLY CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM (page 37)
CHAPTER I. PRE-CHRISTIAN, BIBLICAL, AND PATRISTIC TERMINOLOGY OF RENEWAL AND REFORM (page 39)
CHAPTER II. THE PAULINE IDEA OF REFORM AND RELATED SPIRITUAL CONCEPTS (page 49)
CHAPTER III. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN GREEK CHRISTIAN THOUGHT OF THE PATRISTIC PERIOD (page 63)
CHAPTER IV. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN LATIN PATRISTIC THOUGHT BEFORE ST. AUGUSTINE (page 133)
CHAPTER V. ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE REFORM IDEAS OF THE CHRISTIAN EAST AND WEST (page 153)
CHAPTER VI. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN LITURGY (page 284)
CHAPTER VII. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CANON LAW AND SACRAMENTAL THEOLOGY (page 298)
PART THREE MONASTICISM AS A VEHICLE OF THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM IN THE AGE OF THE FATHERS (page 317)
CHAPTER I. MONASTICISM AS THE EXEMPLARY CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE (page 319)
CHAPTER II. MONKS, PRIESTS, CONVERSI (page 341)
CHAPTER III. THE TRANSMISSION OF AUGUSTINIAN MONASTICISM TO EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE (page 378)
EXCURSUS I. THE DEFINITION OF AN IDEA (page 427)
EXCURSUS II. METAHISTORICAL PRECONCEPTIONS (page 433)
EXCURSUS III. SOME PATRISTIC DISTINCTIONS CONCERNING ETERNITY, AEVUM, AND TIME (page 443)
EXCURSUS IV. POINTS OF CONTACT BETWEEN ST. AUGUSTINE AND MODERN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE (page 449)
EXCURSUS V. ST. AUGUSTINE'S ATTITUDE TO THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORDER OF HIS TIME AND A RECENT BOOK ON DONATISM (page 463)
ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 469)
ADDENDA (page 491)
INDEX (page 493)