Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Augustine’s Pastoral Task of Preaching Sermons
- Part II Augustine’s Sermons on the Scriptures and Liturgical Feasts
- Part III Augustine’s Preaching Themes
- 10 Preaching on the Trinity
- 11 Preaching on the Totus Christus
- 12 Preaching on the Church’s Sacraments
- 13 God’s Grace and Our Willing in Augustine’s Preaching
- 14 Preaching on Love of Neighbor
- 15 Preaching on Life as a Pilgrimage
- 16 Preaching on Heaven and Its Peace
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page )
- References
15 - Preaching on Life as a Pilgrimage
from Part III - Augustine’s Preaching Themes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2025
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Augustine’s Pastoral Task of Preaching Sermons
- Part II Augustine’s Sermons on the Scriptures and Liturgical Feasts
- Part III Augustine’s Preaching Themes
- 10 Preaching on the Trinity
- 11 Preaching on the Totus Christus
- 12 Preaching on the Church’s Sacraments
- 13 God’s Grace and Our Willing in Augustine’s Preaching
- 14 Preaching on Love of Neighbor
- 15 Preaching on Life as a Pilgrimage
- 16 Preaching on Heaven and Its Peace
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page )
- References
Summary
Augustine’s picture of the Christian life as a voyage to the heavenly homeland is central to his thought and preaching, especially prominent in his sermons on the Psalms. For Augustine, peregrinatio is a defining image for the earthly life as such as well as of the process by which the Christian believer seeks to travel home on the path made by Christ. Augustine’s vivid imagery for this spiritual journey traverses a varied landscape, which this essay traces through a range of his sermons. Augustine’s Christology is particularly powerful in these images, for it is Christ who makes a way across the sea and over land to the homeland. Yet to be able to take this path, the believer must also be taught and inspired by the Holy Spirit to desire this homeland. Augustine’s exhortations to cultivate desire and longing are thus also dominant features of his sermons on this theme.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons , pp. 281 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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Further Reading
Clark, Gillian. 2004. “Pilgrims and Foreigners: Augustine on Travelling Home.” In Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity, edited by Ellis, Linda and Frank, L. Kidner, 149–158. San Francisco: Ashgate.Google Scholar
Fiedrowicz, Michael. 1997. Psalmus Vox Totius Christi: Studien zu Augustins “Enarrationes in Psalmos.” Freiburg: Herder.Google Scholar
McLarney, Gerald. 2014. St. Augustine’s Interpretation of the Psalms of Ascent. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stewart-Kroeker, Sarah. 2017. Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine’s Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Oort, Johannes. 1991. Jerusalem and Babylon: A Study into Augustine’s “City of God” and the Sources of His Doctrine of the Two Cities. New York: E. J. Brill.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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