Paul R. KOLBET, Augustine and the cure of souls : revising a Classical ideal (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity series 17) (Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame, 2010) XVIII-342 p. (ISBN: 978-0-268-03321-7)
Augustine and the cure of souls “This study situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions. The author uncovers a profound continuity in Augustine’s thought, from his earliest pre-baptismal writings to his final acts as bishop, revealing a man deeply indebted to the Roman past and yet distinctly Christian. Rather than supplanting this classical learning, Augustine’s Christianity reinvigorated precisely those elements of Roman wisdom that he believed were slipping into decadence. [...] This book offers a fresh reading of Augustine’s writings - particularly his numerous, though often neglected, sermons - and provides an illuminating point of entry into the great North African bishop’s life and thought.”

Brian DOBELL, Augustine’s intellectual conversion : the journey from Platonism to Christianity (Cambridge : CUP, 2009) XVII-250 p. (ISBN: 978-0-521-51339-5)
Augustine platonism “This book examines Augustine’s intellectual conversion from Platonism to Christianity, as described at Confessions 7.9.13-21-17. It is widely assumed that this occured in the summer of 386, shortly before Augustine’s volitional conversion in the garden at Milan. Brian Dobell argues, however, that Augustine’s intellectual conversion did not occur until the mid 390s, and develops this claim by comparing Confessions 7.9.13-21.27 with a number of important passages and themes from Augustine’s early writings. He thus invites the reader to consider anew the problem of Augustine’s conversion in 386: was it to Platonism or Christianity? His original and important study will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the history of philosophy and the history of theology.”

Luis Marín de San Martín (OSA), Los agustinos : orígenes y espiritualidad (Roma : Institutum Historicum Augustinianum, 2009) (Studia augustiniana historica 16), 311 p. (ISBN: 978-90-5573-915-8)
Los agostinos : orígenes y espiritualidad This fine new Spanish publication from friar Luis Marín de San Martin on the augustinian order focuses on the origin of the augustinians and their spirituality. The book is divided into four chapters:I. Sobre la pervivencia del monacato agustiniano (p. 29-82)

II. El mundo de los mendicantes (p. 83-139)

III. Los agustinos (p. 141-194)

IV. Espiritualidad de la orden de san Agustín (p. 195-242)

Wim Sleddens (vert.), Aurelius Augustinus : Belijdenissen (Budel : Damon, 2009) 351 p. (ISBN: 978-90-5573-915-8)
Sleddens - Augustinus' Belijdenissen De augustijn Wim Sleddens is er in geslaagd om met zijn nieuwe Nederlandse vertaling van Augustinus’ Belijdenissen een aangename, verfrissende en getrouwe tekst te creëren. Zij zal ongetwijfeld een heel nieuwe generatie van religieus zoekende mensen ten zeerste aanspreken, omdat deze vertaling het bekeringsverhaal van Augustinus zo herkenbaar maakt. Tegelijkertijd laat Wim Sleddens ook de diepte en rijkheid van de tekst onaangetast. Door vanuit zijn pastorale bekommernis én als theoloog dit beroemde werk te vertalen, heeft hij het tijdloze verhaal van Augustinus’ bewogen bekeringsweg nieuw leven ingeblazen in ons taalgebied.

Henry Chadwick, Augustine of Hippo : a life (Oxford : OUP, 2009) XX-177 p. (ISBN: 978-0-19-956830-7)
Chadwick Augustine A life Augustine’s intellectual development is recounted with clarity and warmth in this newly rediscovered biography of Augustine, as interpreted by the acclaimed church historian, the late Professor Henry Chadwick. Augustine’s intellectual journey from schoolboy and student to Bishop and champion of Western Christendom in a period of intense political upheaval, is narrated in Chadwick’s characteristically rigorous yet sympathetic style. With a foreword reflecting on Professor Chadwick’s distinctive approach to Augustine by Professor Peter Brown.

Johannes Hellebrand (edt), Augustinus als Richter (Res et Signa 5) (Cassiciacum 39/5) (Würzburg : Augustinus-Verlag bei echter, 2009), 191 p. (ISBN: 978-3-429-04172-4)This publication brings together in the German language several contributions which have been published in the past on the theme of Augustine as episcopal judge. It provides in this way an insight into a matter which has rarely been at the centre of attention : how the great theologian Augustine went about in his day-to-day business as administrator of justice.
Augustinus - Echter Verlag 01 Vorwort (Johannes Hellebrand) (p. 9-20)
Agostino Pugliese - Der hl. Augustinus als Richter : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der “episcopalis audientia” (p. 21-59)
Cornelius Mayer - Legitimation des Rechts bei Augustinus (p. 60-83)
Kauko K. Raikas - Audientia episcopalis : Problematik zwischen Staat und Kirche (p. 84-105)
Eva-Maria Kuhn - Rechtsprechung durch den Bischofsrichter. Augustin und die Umsetzung der göttlichen Gerechtigkeit in der Praxis (p. 106-155)
Anhang : Latin text of Epistula 1*, 7*, 8*, 9*, 10*, 14*, 24* and two excerpts from Augustinus-lexikon : “Audientia episcopalis” (by Charles Munier) and “Iudex” (by Kauko K. Raikas) (p. 158-180).

Cornelius Mayer (edt), Alexander Eisgrub (coll), Gunthram Förster (coll), Augustinus : Ethik und Politik (Res et Signa 4) (Cassiciacum 39/4) (Würzburg : Augustinus-Verlag bei echter, 2009), 309 p. (ISBN: 978-3-429-04174-8)This publication is the written result of two conferences held at Würzburg : “Aspekte der Ethik bei Augustinus” on 11 June 2005 and “Augustinus und die Politik” on 24 June 2006.
Augustinus - Echter02 Teil I : Aspekte der Ethik bei AugustinusCornelius Mayer (Die theozentrische Ethik Augustins), Bernard Heininger (Metamorphosen der Liebe. Die Ethik Jesu und das Ethos der frühen Christen), Friedemann Buddensiek (Augustinus über das Glück), Michael Erler (Die helfende Hand Gottes. Augustins Gnadenlehre im Kontext des kaiserzeitlichen Platonismus), Norbert Fischer (Der menschliche Wille als “causa prima”. Augustins Radikalisierung der Freiheitsproblematik) and Volker Henning Drecoll (Die Bedeutung der Gnadenlehre Augustins für die Gegenwart)

Teil II : Augustinus und die Politik
Michael Erler (“Natura extrema vestigia” (civ. 9,12). Sophisctisches und Epikureisches in Augustinus’ “terrena civitas”), Bernard Heininger (“Politische Theologie im Markusevangelium”. Der Aufstieg Vespasians zum Kaiser und der Abstieg Jesu ans Kreuz), Adolf Martin Ritter (Religion und Politik im frühchristlichen Denken bis zu Augustin), Robert Dodaro (Augustine and the possibility of political conscience), and Jürgen Miethke (Papismus und Augustinismus in der politischen Theorie der spätmittelalterlichen Augustiner-Eremiten. Ein Überblick)

Arne Hogrefe, Umstrittene Vergangenheit : Historische Argumente in der Auseinandersetzung Augustins mit den Donatisten (Millenium Studies 24) (Berlin : de Gruyter, 2009), XI-393 p. (ISBN: 978-3-11-020363-9)
Donatist The focus in this study is on the historical arguments used in the Donatist controversy. The introductory chapter deals with Donatism in Augustine’s time. Next, the writings against the grammarian Cresconius and the anti-Donatist letters are analyzed, in which the author explores the historical argumentation. The Conference at Carthage (411) forms the subject matter of the important chapter 5 (p. 153-227). The historical self-understanding of the Donatists and Augustine’s reaction is treated in chapter 6 (p. 228-269). Subsequently, the origin of the Donatist schism is studied, touching upon the several councils dealing with this matter. Finally, in a last chapter, a summary is given and final conclusions are drawn.

Jörg Trelenberg, Augustins Schrift De ordine : Einführung, Kommentar, Ergebnisse (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie 144) (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2009), X-474 p. (ISBN: 978-3-16-149545-8)
De ordine This book gives an excellent theological and philosophical analysis of Augustine’s early dialogue De ordine, in which Augustine tries to tackle - together with the other participants at Cassiciacum - the difficult question “Whence evil?”
Besides providing a detailed commentary (p. 36-373), the author briefly discusses at the end (p. 375-415) some well-known issues concerning the Cassiciacum dialogues in general, and De ordine in particular: the historicity of the dialogues, Augustine’s abandonment of his worldly ambitions at Cassiciacum, the unity of De ordine, which writings of Plotinus Augustine knew, and the conversion of Licentius as recounted in De ordine in relation to Augustine’s own conversion.

Manfred Svensson, Theorie und Praxis bei Augustin : eine Verhältnisbestimmung (München : Alber, 2009), 255 p. (ISBN: 978-3-495-48360-2)
Theorie und Praxis bei Augustin This is a lightly reworked version of an academic thesis (2007).It contains three chapters:

I. Theoretisches und praktisches Wissen.

II. Gott, Kosmos und mensliche Praxis.

III. Aktives und kontemplatives Leben.

Each chapter falls into two sections: “The Antique position” and “Augustine”

Salvino Caruane (edt), TIl-Mara u i-istat : fit-taghlim ta’ Stu Wistin (Gabra ta’ tahdidiet li saru gewwa I-Istitut Agostinjan 2007-2009) (Malta : Provincja Agostinjana, 2009), 320 p. (ISBN: 978-99932-0-725-2)
Il-Mara u l-istat A collection of papers delivered at the Augustinian Institute of Malta between 2007 and 2009.
Half of the articles are written in English: “Saint Augustine on women” (S. Caruana OSA) ; “Saint Augustine on the political state” (S. Caruana OSA) ; “What are women for? Augustine’s answers (Gillian Clark) ; “Saint Augustine : Episcopalis arbiter” (Silvia Meli) ; “A reading of Pelagius’ Commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Romans. Was Pelagius only a moralist or also a theologian? Was the theology of the early Pelagius orthodox?” (Anthony Dupont)

Tarsicius J. van Bavel (aut), Von Liebe und Freundschaft : Augustinus über das christliche Leben (Würzburg : Augustinus bei echter, 2009), 181 p. (ISBN: 978-3-429-04173-1)
Von Liebe und Freundschaft This book is a reworked edition by Raimund Klinke, of the acclaimed book by T.J. van Bavel, Christ in dieser Welt - Augustinus zu Fragen seiner und unserer Zeit. (This itself is a German translation by Manfred Jasper of the Dutch original: Augustinus : van liefde en vriendschap (Baarn : Het Wereldvenster, 1970)). The book lays bare the depth and sensitivity of knowledge of both saint Augustine and Tars van Bavel about a theme which remained close to their heart throughout their life.

Alexander Y. Hwang, Intrepid lover of perfect grace : the life and thought of Prosper of Aquitaine (Washington : The Catholic University of America press, 2009), XIV-267 p. (ISBN: 978-0-8132-1670-6)
Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace This is the first biography of Prosper of Aquitaine, an in the past much-neglected saint, who played an important role in the reception of Augustine’s ideas on grace.
Appraisal of Joseph T. Lienhard : “Alexander Hwang has redrawn the picture of Prosper. Hwang’s book will help scholars recast their accounts of how St. Augustine’s teaching was received - or not received - in the century after his death.”
Appraisal of Boniface Ramsey : “Of all those among Augustine’s contemporaries who struggled with his view of grace, Prosper of Aquitaine was surely the most influential.

Constance Dittrich, Norbert Fischer, Erich Naab (eds.) Augustinus. Ein Lehrer des Abendlandes : Einführung und Dokumente (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009), 136 p. (ISBN: 978-3-447-05923-7)
Augustinusboek Mayer Karla Pollmann, “In ecclesia praesens - Zur Augustinrezeption im 5. und 6. Jahrhundert” (p. 1-14)
Norbert Fischer, “Zum heutigen Streit um Augustinus : sein Werk als Schatz, als Bürde und als Herausforderung des Denkens” (p. 15-41)
Cornelius Mayer, “Grundlagen der Augustinus-Forschung” (p. 33-41)
Klaus Walter Littger und Erich Naab, “Augustinus in Eichstätter Bibliotheken” (p. 43-75)
Oliver Motz, “Original und Originalität : zur digitalen Restauration des ältesten Bildnis des heiligen Augustinus” (p. 77-81)
Constance Dittrich, “Augustinus und sein Nachwirken in den Exponaten der Ausstellung” (p. 83-104)
Katalog (p. 105-136)