Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART ONE. VARIETIES OF RENEWAL IDEOLOGY AND THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM
6. CHAPTER I. DISTINCTION OF THE IDEA OF REFORM FROM OTHER IDEAS OF RENEWAL 9
7. CHAPTER II. DEFINITION OF THE IDEA OF REFORM 35
8. PART TWO. THE EARLY CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM
9. CHAPTER I. PRE-CHRISTIAN, BIBLICAL, AND PATRISTIC TERMINOLOGY OF RENEWAL AND REFORM 39
10. CHAPTER II. THE PAULINE IDEA OF REFORM AND RELATED SCRIPTURAL CONCEPTS 49
11. CHAPTER III. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN GREEK CHRISTIAN THOUGHT OF THE PATRISTIC PERIOD 63
12. CHAPTER IV. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN LATIN PATRISTIC THOUGHT BEFORE ST. AUGUSTINE 133
13. CHAPTER V. ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE REFORM IDEAS OF THE CHRISTIAN EAST AND WEST 153
14. CHAPTER VI. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN LITURGY 284
15. CHAPTER VII. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN EARLY CHRISTIAN CANON LAW AND SACRAMENTAL THEOLOGY 298
16. PART THREE. MONASTICISM AS A VEHICLE OF THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM IN THE AGE OF THE FATHERS
17. CHAPTER I. MONASTICISM AS THE EXEMPLARY CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE 319
18. CHAPTER II. MONKS, PRIESTS, CONVERSI 341
19. CHAPTER III. THE TRANSMISSION OF AUGUSTINIAN MONASTICISM TO EARLY MEDIAEVAL EUROPE 378
20. EXCURSUS I. THE DEFINITION OF AN IDEA 427
21. EXCURSUS II. METAHISTORICAL PRECONCEPTIONS 433
22. EXCURSUS III. SOME PATRISTIC DISTINCTIONS CONCERNING ETERNITY, AEVUM, AND TIME 443
23. EXCURSUS IV. POINTS OF CONTACT BETWEEN ST. AUGUSTINE AND MODERN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE 449
24. EXCURSUS V. ST. AUGUSTINE'S ATTITUDE TO THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORDER OF HIS TIME AND A RECENT BOOK ON DONATISM 463
25. ABBREVIATIONS and BIBLIOGRAPHY 469
26. ADDENDA 491
27. INDEX 493