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Part I - Augustine’s Pastoral Task of Preaching Sermons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2025

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Andrew Hofer, OP
Andrew Hofer, OP
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Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC
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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons , pp. 23 - 78
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Print publication year: 2025

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Boodts, Shari, and Dupont, Anthony. 2018. “Augustine of Hippo.” In Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, and Audiences in the Latin West, vol. 6 of A New History of the Sermon, edited by Dupont, Anthony, Boodts, Shari, Partoens, Gert, and Leemans, Johan, 177–197. Boston: Brill.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Arnold, Duane W. H., and Bright, Pamela, eds. 1995. De Doctrina Christiana: A Classic of Western Culture. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.Google Scholar
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Dupont, Anthony. 2014. A Critical Reappraisal of Augustine’s Doctrine of Grace in his Sermones ad Populum on Liturgical Feasts and during the Donatist Controversy. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, vol. 177. Boston: Brill.Google Scholar
Fiedrowicz, Michael. 1997. Psalmus vox totius Christi: Studien zu Augustins “Enarrationes in Psalmos.” Freiburg: Herder.Google Scholar
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Boodts, Shari. 2019. “Navigating the Vast Tradition of St. Augustine’s Sermons: Old Instruments and New Approaches.” Augustiniana 69, no. 1: 83–115.Google Scholar
Dolbeau, François. 2017. “Longueur et transmission des sermons d’Augustin au people: Un examen des sermons pour l’Epiphanie et De Sanctis.” Revue Bénédictine 127: 5–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dolbeau, François. 2019–2021. “Sermones (ad populum).” In Augustinus-Lexikon 5, fasc. 1/2: Sacrificium offerre – Sermones (ad populum), 244–320, and fasc. 3/4: Sermones (ad populum) – Tempora, tempora christiana, 321–399. Basel/Berlin: Schwabe Verlag.Google Scholar
Dupont, Anthony, Boodts, Shari, Leemans, Johan, and Partoens, Gert, eds. 2018. Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, and Audiences in the Latin West. A New History of the Sermon, vol. 6. Boston: Leiden.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Partoens, Gert. 2013. “Sermones ad populum.” In Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, vol. 3, edited by Pollmann, Karla, Otten, Willemien, Andrews, James, Arweiler, Alexander, Backus, Irena, Bergjan, Silke-Petra, Brachtendorf, Johannes, et al., 323–330. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
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