Augustine and Liberal Education

Kim Paffenroth, Kevin L. Hughes

Contents: Foreword, John Immerwahr, Kim Paffenroth and Kevin Hughes; Part I: Education in the Confessions: Bad habits and bad company: Education and evil in the Confessions, Kim Paffenroth; Models of teaching and models of learning in the Confessions, Debra Romanick Baldwin; Augustine's Confessions as Pedagogy: Exercises in transformation, Thomas F. Martin; Part II: Education in Augustine's other works: Study as love: Augustinian vision and Catholic education, Phillip Cary; The Bishop as teacher, Daniel Doyle; The "Arts reputed liberal": Augustine on the perils of liberal education, Kevin L. Hughes; Part III: Teaching and authority in Augustine: Augustine's pedagogy of intellectual liberation: Turning students from the "truth of authority" to the "Authority of truth", Richard M. Jacobs; The limits of Augustine's personal authority: the hermeneutics of trust in De utilitate credendi, Felix Asiedu; Limit and possibility: An Augustinian counsel to Authority, Mark J. Doorley; Augustine and English protestants: Authority and order, coercion and dissent in the earthly city, Andrew R. Murphy; Part IV: Liberal education since Augustine: Reading without moving your lips: The role of the solitary reader in liberal education, Marylu Hill; The motives for liberal education, Thomas W. Smith.