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    The term ‘Augustinianism’ has been used by scholars for over a century to refer to trends in medieval philosophy, theology, and politics, which had a major effect on the transformations of European culture and society from the Middle Ages to the onset of modernity. Yet in each of these three disciplines ‘Augustinianism’ means something different, and the lack of clarity only increases when the debates over the relationship between a late medieval Augustinianism and Martin Luther are also conside…Read more
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    Augustine’s Confessions: Philosophy in Autobiography edited by William E. Mann (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 69 (1): 117-118. 2015.
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    In the Wake of Lombard
    Augustinian Studies 46 (1): 71-104. 2015.
    This article investigates the new attitude toward the reception and use of Augustine in the early thirteenth century as seen in the works of Helinand of Froidmont and Robert Grosseteste. Both scholars were products of the Twelfth Century Renaissance of Augustine, represented in Peter Lombard’s Sentences, the Glossa Ordinaria, and Gratian’s Decretum. Yet both Helinand and Grosseteste reconstructed Augustine’s texts for their own purposes; they did not simply use Augustine as an authority. Detaile…Read more
  • Via Augustini: Augustine in the Later Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation : Essays in Honor of Damasus Trapp, 0. S. A (review)
    with Heiko Augustinus Oberman and Frank A. James
    Studies in Medieval and Reform. 1991.
    For forty years Damasus Trapp has been the foremost scholar of late medieval Augustinianism. His work has made a major contribution to our understanding of Augustine's influence on intellectual life of Europe from the 14th to the 16th century. In the present volume the heritage of Augustine in the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation is illustrated by contributions from leading scholars in the field, which range from academic disputation at Oxford in the early 14th century, to the wor…Read more