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13 - Pride and Humility

from Part II - Main Themes and Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Notker Baumann
Edited by
Tarmo Toom
Tarmo Toom
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

In Augustine’s “Confessions,” the central point of pride – the root of sin – is excessive and arrogant complacency. Humility as self-knowledge, in contrast, includes four principles: creatureliness, sinfulness, confession, and grace.

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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 208 - 226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Baumann, N. Die Demut als Grundlage aller Tugenden bei Augustinus. Patrologia 21. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009.Google Scholar
Bruning, B. “Augustine’s Concept of Pride: Ut cancer serpit (en. Ps. 1,1).” Augustiniana 63/1–4 (2013), 9–81.Google Scholar
Courcelle, P. “Le Typhus, maladie de l’âme d’après Philon et d’après Saint Augustin.” In Corona gratiarum: miscellanea patristica, historica et liturgica Eligio Dekkers O.S.B. XII lustra complenti oblata. Instrumenta patristica 10–11. Brugge: S. Pieter-sabdij, 1975, 245–288.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hombert, P.-M. Gloria Gratiae. Se glorifier en Dieu, principe et fin de la théologie augustinienne de la grâce. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 148. Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1996.Google Scholar
Jamieson, I. W. A., “Augustine’s Confessions: The Structure of Humility.” Augustiniana 24 (1974), 234–246.Google Scholar
Mayer, C. “Humiliatio, humilitas.” In Augustinus-Lexikon, ed. Mayer, C.. Basel: Schwabe, 2004–2010, vol. 3, 443–456.Google Scholar
Procopé, J. F. “Hochmut.” In Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, eds. Dassmann, E., et al. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, vol. 15, 795–858.Google Scholar
Schaffner, O. Christliche Demut. Des hl. Augustinus Lehre von der Humilitas. Cassiciacum 17. Würzburg: Augustinus, 1959.Google Scholar
Testard, M. “La ‘superbia’ dans les Confessions de saint Augustin.” In Homo Spiritualis. Festgabe für Luc Verheijen OSA zu seinem 70. Geburtstag, ed. Mayer, C.. Cassiciacum 38. Würzburg: Augustinus, 1987, 136–170.Google Scholar

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  • Pride and Humility
  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions'
  • Online publication: 22 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672405.016
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  • Pride and Humility
  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions'
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672405.016
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  • Pride and Humility
  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions'
  • Online publication: 22 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672405.016
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