Abstract

The third volume of Augustinus Magister, continuing the Acts of the International Augustinian Congress held in Paris in September 1954, completes a work which is both the most comprehensive account of and the most important contribution to Augustinian studies in our times. The first two volumes contained the individual papers contributed by members of the Congress. This volume contains the reports in which a number of distinguished scholars summed up these individual contributions and gave a general impression of the situation in the various subdivisions of the vast territory over which Augustinian scholarship and speculation ranges. These reports are often important original contributions in their own right, not mere summaries of other peoples’ conclusions; and their value is enhanced by the printing of accounts of the often lively discussions to which they gave rise. The volume also contains a number of additional communications by distinguished scholars which could not be included in the first two volumes, the opening and closing addresses, and a list of the participants in the Congress.