This collection examines the topic of time in Augustine of Hippo. By placing Augustine into conversation with theologians and philosophers from the Islamic, Christian, and Buddhist traditions, the goal is to demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Augustine's account of temporality across historical, cultural, and religious boundaries.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
  • Notes
• Part I: Interpreting Augustine on Time
• Chapter 1: Time, Eternity, and History in Augustine’s Early Works
  • Plotinus and Manichaeism on Time, Eternity, and History
  • Time, Eternity, and History in Augustine’s Italian Writings
  • Time, Eternity, and History in Augustine’s Thagaste Writings
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: Keeping Time in Mind: Saint Augustine’s Proposed Solution to a Perplexing Problem
  • Augustine on Time
  • Critical Responses to Augustine on Time
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: Time after Augustine
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • Notes
• Part II: Time, Language, and Song
• Chapter 4: Living as Singing: Augustine’s Understanding of the Voice of Creatures in the Confessiones 
  • Listening to the Voice of Mutable Things
  • Our Voice to Sing
  • Living as Singing
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 5: Time, Mirror of the Soul
  • Some Premises
  • The Internal Reality of Time
  • Distentio Animi and Joshua’s Sun
  • Deus Creator Omnium
  • Final Remarks
  • Notes
• Chapter 6: The Inner Word and the Outer World: Time, Temporality, and Language in Augustine and Gadamer
  • Gadamer’s Theory of Language
  • Christian Logos Theology
  • The Augustinian Inner Word
  • The Reconciliation of Time and Eternity
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Part III: Time, Embodiment, and Gender
• Chapter 7: Augustinian Temporality and Resurrected Bodies
  • Conceptual Distinctions and Augustine’s Physical Account of Time
  • Resurrected Bodies in the Sermons of Early 411
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 8: Love in the Time of Augustine: Rape, Suicide, and Resurrection in City of God
  • Crisis Theology: Contextualizing Augustine’s City of God
  • The Desexualization of Gender in the World That Is to Come
  • Gendered Heavenly Bodies
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 9: Augustine and the Gendered Self in Time
  • New Feminist Materialism
  • Augustine, Gender, and the Self in Time
  • Augustine and the New Feminist Materialists in Dialogue
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Part IV: Augustinian Temporality in the Middle Ages
• Chapter 10: Augustine and Avicenna on the Puzzle of Time without Time
  • Avicenna’s Theory of Time
  • Avicenna and the Puzzle of Too Many Times
  • Avicenna’s Solution to the Two Puzzles
  • Avicenna and Augustine on the Eternity of Time
  • Notes
• Chapter 11: The Timing of Creation: Aquinas’s Reception of Augustine
  • The Hermeneutics of the Timing of Creation in the De potentia
  • The Timing of Creation in the Summa theologiae
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 12: Augustine’s Dilemma: Divine Eternity and the Reality of Temporal Passage
  • Augustine’s Dilemma: Temporal Passage and the Eternity of Divine Knowledge
  • Aquinas: Sharpening the Horns of Augustine’s Dilemma
  • Scotus’s Exposure of Augustine’s Dilemma
  • Suarez’s Augustinian Presentism
  • Wyclif’s Augustinian Eternalism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 13: Thomas Bradwardine: A Fourteenth-Century Augustinian View of Time
  • Who Is Thomas Bradwardine?
  • Bradwardine and Augustinian Approaches to Time
  • What Is an “Augustinian” View of Time?
  • Temporality in William Ockham
  • Bradwardine’s Rejection of Ockham
  • Conclusion: Bradwardine’s Legacy
  • Notes
• Chapter 14: Time after Time: Gregory of Rimini, Contingents Past and Future, and Augustinian Critique
  • Situating Time and God in Gregory
  • Situating Gregory in Time
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Part V: Augustinian and Buddhist Temporalities
• Chapter 15: Non-Presentism in Antiquity: South Asian Buddhist Perspectives
  • Ontological Presentism
  • Practical Presentism
  • Buddhist Practical Presentism
  • In Search of Time Past
  • Varieties of Buddhist Four-Dimensionalism
  • Reality, Eternality, and the Ontological Distinction
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 16: Breaking the Stream of Consciousness: Momentariness and the Eternal Present
  • Proving the Instantaneous Passing Away of All Phenomena
  • Consciousness in a Fleeting World
  • Seeing the Instantaneous Passing Away of All Phenomena
  • Consciousness and the Eternal Present
  • Notes
• Chapter 17: Out of the Abyss: On Pedagogical Relationality and Time in the Confessions and the Lotus Sutra
  • Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Editors and Contributors