The Augustinian Institute sponsors an international conference on St. Augustine and his thought under the title Reconsiderations. The first was held in 2003 and the second in 2006. On both occasions leading scholars from around the world were invited to Villanova and their papers were published in the Journal of Augustinian Studies.

Reconsiderations Conference III (2009)

A Conference on the thought and legacy of Augustine of Hippo
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE SAINT AUGUSTINE LECTURE SERIES

September 17-19, 2009

A conference on Augustine of Hippo and the development of his thought.

Thursday September 17th 2009

7:00 pm
Villanova Room, Connelly Center

"Saint Augustine Lecture"
Isabelle Bochet, S.F.X., Institut Catholique
Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, Paris

"Scripture in Augustine's Controversy with Porphyry"


Friday, September 18, 2009

Villanova Conference Center

Morning Session
Augustine and Scripture
MODERATOR:  Jonathan Yates, Villanova University

9:00am Michael Cameron, University of Portland
"'She Arranges Everything Pleasingly' (Wisdon 8:1): The Rhetorical Base of Augustine's Hermeneutic"

9:40am Karla Pollman,St Andrews University, Scotland
"More questions raised than answered? Fundamental issues in Augustine's Literal Commentary on Genesis."

Break

10:35am John Cavadini, Notre Dame University
"The Eucharistic Hermeneutics of Augustine's Confessions."

11:15am Michael McCarthy, S.J., Santa Clara University
"The Psalms of Ascent in Augustine's Enarrationes in psalmos"

11:50am Discussion

12:30pm Lunch

Afternoon Session
Augustine the Theologian
MODERATOR: Martin Laird, O.S.A., Villanova University

1:45pm Brian Daley, S.J., Notre Dame University
"The Law, the Whole Christ, and the Spirit of Love: Grace as a Trinitarian Gift in Augustine's Theology"?

2:25pm Robert Dodaro, O.S.A., Augustinianum, Rome
"Augustine on the Role of Christ and of the Holy Spirit in the Sanctification of Believers"

Break

3:20pm Lewis Ayres, Durham University
"Augustine on The Spirit as The Soul of the Body OR Fragments of a Trinitarian Ecclesiology"

4:00pm Mathijs Lamberigts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
"Augustine's use of Tradition in the Controversy with Julian of Aeclanum"

4:40pm Discussion

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Villanova Conference Center

Morning Session
"Augustine and Philosophy
MODERATOR: Jesse Couenhoven, Villanova University

9:00am Luigi Alici, Università di Macerata, Italy
"Violence of the idolatries and pacific cohabitation.  Actuality of the De civitate Dei"

9:40am Gerd Van Riel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
"Augustine on Prudence"

Break

10:35am Giovanni Catapano, Università di Padova, Italy
"Augustine, Julian, and Dialectic:  A Reconsideration of J. Pẻpin's Lecture".

11:15am Frederick Van Fleteren, LaSalle University
"Augustine and Philosophy:  Intellectus fidei."

11:50am Discussion

12:30pm Lunch

Afternoon Session
Augustine Engaging the World
MODERATOR:  James Wetzel, Villanova University
 
1:45pm John Bowlin, Princeton Theological Seminary
"Augustine Counting Virtues"

2:25pm Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College
"Sovereignty and sadness:  Ambiguities of power and love"

Break

3:20pm Eric Gregory, Princeton University
"Augustinians and The New Liberalism"

4:00pm Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
"A Worldly Augustinianism"

4:40pm Discussion

5:30pm Conclusion - Followed by Reception, 1st floor lobby.