Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
13 - Pride and Humility
from Part II - Main Themes and Topics
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
In Augustine’s “Confessions,” the central point of pride – the root of sin – is excessive and arrogant complacency. Humility as self-knowledge, in contrast, includes four principles: creatureliness, sinfulness, confession, and grace.
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Hombert, P.-M. Gloria Gratiae. Se glorifier en Dieu, principe et fin de la théologie augustinienne de la grâce. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 148. Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1996.Google Scholar
Jamieson, I. W. A., “Augustine’s Confessions: The Structure of Humility.” Augustiniana 24 (1974), 234–246.Google Scholar
Mayer, C. “Humiliatio, humilitas.” In Augustinus-Lexikon, ed. Mayer, C.. Basel: Schwabe, 2004–2010, vol. 3, 443–456.Google Scholar
Procopé, J. F. “Hochmut.” In Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, eds. Dassmann, E., et al. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, vol. 15, 795–858.Google Scholar
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Testard, M. “La ‘superbia’ dans les Confessions de saint Augustin.” In Homo Spiritualis. Festgabe für Luc Verheijen OSA zu seinem 70. Geburtstag, ed. Mayer, C.. Cassiciacum 38. Würzburg: Augustinus, 1987, 136–170.Google Scholar
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