Abstract

This volume contains the select proceedings of the conference, "History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Augustine's City of God, which was held at the University of British Columbia in September 1998. Historians, theologians, and literary scholars from North America, Europe, and Japan joined in a cross-disciplinary exploration of Augustine's most challenging encyclopedic work, its contexts in Late Antiquity, and its long-term impact on Western culture.The collection includes contributions by Neil B. McLynn on Augustine's Roman Empire; Gerard J. P. O'Daly on Cicero's Republic in the City of God; Philippe Bruggisser on Augustine and Servius; J. Kevin Coyle on the Book of Revelation in the City of God and Augustine's Preaching; Paul B. Harvey, Jr. on Augustine and Tyconius; Virginia Burrus on the Apocalyptic Feast; Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Peter J. Burnell on Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt as readers of Augustine; Michael Hollerich on Augustine; and John Milbank and the "Secular."