After finishing Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation, I was very pleased to find that I owned this audio course about Augustine by the same professor. This course, though, was in the original shrink wrap which means I paid full price for it or at the very least paid The Teaching Company directly for it when it was on sale. So I leapt right into it.
The series is only 12 lectures, half the size of the Luther series, and it follows the same pattern with biography, historical context, and then theology, albeit abbreviated by the brevity of the series. Which, I guess, is redundant since both those words share a root.
The lectures include:
- Church Father
- Church Platonist
- Confessions–The Search for Wisdom
- Confessions–Love and Tears
- Confessions–The Road Home
- Augustine’s Career as a Christian Writer
- Faith, Love, and Grace
- Evil, Free Will, Original Sin, and Predestination
- Signs and Sacraments
- The Inner Self
- The Trinity and the Soul
- The City of God
The course emphasizes the influence of Platonism on Augustine and, hence, a lot of Christian thinkers. It shares a lot of content with the Luther series, of course, where the thinkers overlap. More than the other series, though, this book reminded me how much of Augustine’s writings I have scattered amongst the Nogglestead library and made me want to read the translated primary sources that I have available.
For something to read between men’s adventure paperbacks, I would guess.
At any rate, another course that I’m glad I listened to. Which means I should change up topic matter to keep the theology from becoming repetitive and stale.
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