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Cross Connection: A Texas Annual Conference Publication 158, no. 6 (June 10, 2011): 1, 7.
On this see the insightful argument in Charles Mathewes, A Theology of Public Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
For a thorough discussion of technology from a theological perspective, see Brian Brock, Christian Ethics in a Technological Age (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).
Augustine, City of God, ed. David Knowles, trans. Henry Bettenson (New York: Pelican Books, 1972).
Robert L. Wilken, “The City of God Today,” in The Two Cites of God: The Church's Responsibility for the Earthly City, ed. Carl E. Bratten and Robert W. Jenson (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1997), 35.
I am following the excellent discussion in Robert L. Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003), 186–211.
On the epistemic humility and the “pilgrimage of testimony,” see Rodney Clapp, Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular Culture and Public Affairs (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2000), 19–32.
Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought, 209–10.
Rowan A. Greer, Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1986), 90.
Robert W. Jenson, “How the World Lost Its Story,” reprinted in The New Religious Humanists, ed. Gregory Wolfe (New York: Free Press, 1997), 142–3; Nicholas Lash, The Beginning and End of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 233–4.
Jean Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987), 276–7.
The primary text I am using is The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21stt Century, vol. 1, Teaching Christianity: De Doctrina Christiana, ed. John E. Rotelle, O.S.A. (Hyde Park: New City Press, 1996).
For my reading of Augustine I am indebted to the interpretation of A. N. Williams, The Divine Sense, 143–89, and ibid. “Contemplation,” in Knowing the Triune God: The Work of the Spirit in the Practices of the Church, eds. James J. Buckley and David S. Yeago (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001), 121–46; J. Patout Burns, “Delighting the Spirit: Augustine's Practice of Figurative Interpretation,” in De Doctrina Christian: A Classic of Western Culture, eds. Duane W. H. Arnold and Pamela Bright (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), 182–94; on Augustine's theological reading of scripture as leading to union with God in holy love, see Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering, Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2005).
R. R. Reno, “Pride and Idolatry,” Interpretation 60, no. 2 (April 2006): 170, 180.
Andrew Louth, Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), 73–4.
J. Patout Burns, “Delighting the Spirit: Augustine's Practice of Figurative Interpretation,” 187.
Eric O. Springsted, The Act of Faith (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002), 147.
Robert L. Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 311.
Rebecca Harden Weaver, “Guidance for the Pilgrim Community,” Interpretation 58, no.1 (January 2004): 41.
Aidan Kavannagh, On Liturgical Theology (New York: Pueblo, 1984), 98–9.
Cited in Elizabeth A. Dryer, “Spirituality as a Resource for Theology: the Holy Spirit in Augustine,” in Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality, eds. Elizabeth A. Dryer and Mark S. Burrows (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), 188.