Latin Patristic Sermons

Ministerium Sermonis, a subseries of the well-known series Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, continues its exploration of Latin Patristic sermons. Entitled Vox Praedicatoris this fifth volume (IPM, 98) contains nineteen articles on the transmission, critical edition, interpretation, and reception of Latin Patristic sermons, and particularly those of the African Church Father Augustine of Hippo.

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The nineteen articles in this collective volume focus on the transmission, critical edition, interpretation, and reception of Latin Patristic sermons, and particularly those of the African Church Father Augustine of Hippo.

This volume presents the proceedings of the conference ‘Ministerium Sermonis. An International Colloquium on St. Augustine’s Sermons’ (8-10 December 2021). The nineteen articles collected here focus on the transmission, critical edition, interpretation, and reception of Latin Patristic sermons, and particularly the sermons of the African Church Father Augustine of Hippo. By combining philological, exegetical, theological, rhetorical, and historical approaches, this volume aims to demonstrate the value of these sermons as a key source for understanding the Early Christian Church. The volume forms a sequel to the proceedings of the previous three Ministerium Sermonis conferences (Leuven-Turnhout 2008, Rome 2011, Malta 2015), which have also been published in the series Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaeualia (subseries Ministerium Sermonis I, II and III).

Table of Contents

Preface — Nicolas De Maeyer, Gert Partoens, Shari Boodts & Anthony Dupont

Augustine as Political Orator — Gillian Clark

Augustin admoneste ses fidèles après une émeute. Édition critique du s. 302 auctus — François Dolbeau

An Unidentified Fragment of a Lost Augustinian Sermon: De quattuor uirtutibus caritatis 9 (s. 73 ad fratres in eremo) — Clemens Weidmann

Quels sermons d’Augustin Isidore de Séville connaissait-il ? — Jacques Elfassi

Nouvelles hypothèses sur l’origine de la « collection » De bono coniugali — Jérémy Delmulle

The Octoginta homiliae Collection: A Witness of the Early Reception of Augustine’s Preaching — Matthieu Pignot

A Chapter in the Transmission of the Quinquaginta homiliae in Present-Day Belgium and Northern France — Gert Partoens

The Homiliary of Bellevaux (Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. Lat. 248): Analysis of the Sources, Structure, and Stemmatical Relations of its First Part (Items 1-32) — Nicolas De Maeyer

Augustine’s Sermons in the Hands of Medieval Compilers: Notes on the Role of Sermones ad Populum and Tractatus in Iohannem in the Customization of Liturgical Sermon Collections — Riccardo Macchioro

« Quid est quod dicunt christiani : “Crede, crede” ? ». Augustin en dialogue avec les païens dans le s. Dolbeau 25 — Isabelle Bochet

« Sois attentif à ce qui t’est dit, pas à celui qui le dit » (en. Ps. 36, 3, 20). Sur la réponse augustinienne à la théologie donatiste de la prédication — Marie Pauliat

Homiletical Instruction and Communal Exegesis: Augustine and his Congregation in the Early Anti-Manichaean Sermons — Thomas Clemmons

Metaphilosophy in Augustine’s Sermons — Giovanni Catapano

The Personal Union of Christ and the Church in Augustine’s Sermons: Foundations, Applications, Implications — J. Patout Burns

Ambrosian Influence on Hippo’s Pulpit: Iob 14, 4 and Ps. 50, 7 in the Sermons of Augustine — Anthony Dupont

Towards a Better Ciuitas: A Rhetoric of Civic Values in the Preaching of Augustine of Hippo and Maximus of Turin — Merel De Bruin – Van de Beek

Praeclara pulchritudo uirtutis: Suffering, Endurance, and the Aesthetics of Manliness in De excidio urbis — Joshua Benjamins

Salvian the Homilist: A Fifth-Century Gallic Magister and his Audience — Christopher M. Blunda

El texto de Eph. 4, 3 en los Sermones ad populum de Agustín. Imágenes de la Iglesia en un contexto antidonatista — Enrique A. Eguiarte

Indices — Nicolas De Maeyer, Gert Partoens & Wendy Frère