Receiving Augustine Conference

Few thinkers have had so great an influence on the development of Christian theology and the Catholic tradition as St Augustine of Hippo.

His significance in the Latin West is unrivalled.

His prolific preaching and commentary on Sacred Scripture is supplemented by his explicit and sustained theorising on the exegetes task and methods.

His defences of Nicene trinitarianism and Catholic ecclesiology established a Western gold standard.

His distinctive models of sin and grace, of sacramentology and signification, and of election and ecclesial unity provided both the framework and the faultlines for more than a thousand years of theological reasoning.

Thanks to his voluminous correspondence and his carefully curated Confessions we have a richer appreciation of his biography and intellectual development than virtually any other figure from Late Antiquity.

Indeed, thanks to the work of Peter Brown, St Augustine seems almost to embody that historical period.This conference will bring together patrologists, historians and systematic theologians to study both this most momentous of the Latin Fathers, and his long-contested and ever-developing reception.Speakers will explore his life and historical context, his theology and Scriptural interpretation, and the long story of how subsequent theologians and thinkers have found in the Bishop of Hippo a model for emulation, an authority to follow, and a conversation partner with and through whom to reason.

As usual at Pusey House, this conference will bring together research from both the Academy and the Church, and will be ecumenical in both composition and outlook.

In particular, and following on from last years successful Nicaea conference, there will be a particular emphasis on sharing the very best contemporary research with current undergraduate and postgraduate students from Oxford and further afield, and with those engaged in Christian ministry.Speakers:Dr David Bennett (Wycliffe Hall, Oxford), The Judge Who Weeps: Misericordia, Emotion, and Augustine's Christological Subversion of Classical Eudaimonia.Dr Joshua Caminiti (Lincoln College, Oxford), Almost, but not quite: A.H.

Armstrong on Augustine.Professor Phillip Cary (Eastern University), Ecclesial Sacraments: The Church as Res Sacramenti in Augustine.Professor Anthony Dupont (KU Leuven), Tolle Lege Imagined: Augustines Conversion Represented Throughout the Ages.Professor Mark Edwards (Christ Church, Oxford), Silence and Forgetting in Augustine.The Rev'd Dr Carolyn Hammond (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge), After the gospel, no need for research: Augustine Teaching Christianity.Canon Professor Carol Harrison (Christ Church, Oxford), Augustine and the enduring bond of relationship.Professor Joshua Hordern (Jesus College, Oxford), TBC.Professor Fr Oskari Juurikkala (Santa Croce, Rome), Augustine's Other Book: Creation and How to Read It.Professor Karla Pollmann (University of Tbingen), Augustine the Preacher: Christianizing Mass Communication?Dr Jonathan Price (Pusey House & St Cross, Oxford), Did St Augustine invent identity politics?Professor Susannah Ticciati (King's College, London), Seek his face always: De trinitate as unending search.