Preacher of Grace A Critical Reappraisal of Augustine’s Doctrine of Grace in his Sermones ad Populum on Liturgical Feasts and during the Donatist Controversy
Preacher of Grace by Anthony Dupont, published by BRILL on July 17, 2014, explores Augustine of Hippo’s doctrine of grace as presented in his sermons. This edition, comprising 246 pages, delves into Augustine’s approach to divine grace beyond his systematic treatises against the Pelagians, focusing on his sermons delivered during significant liturgical feasts and the Donatist controversy.
Readers will find a thorough examination of how Augustine addressed the theme of grace in various contexts, highlighting the pastoral nature of his preaching. Dupont analyzes sermons that are both Christological and moralizing, providing insights into the interaction between audience, context, and preaching genre. This critical reappraisal contributes to the understanding of continuity and change in Augustine’s theological thought on grace, offering a comprehensive view of his sermonic works.
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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) became known as the ‘doctor of grace’. He developed his theory of divine grace mainly in his systematic treatises directed against the Pelagians (ca. 411-430). Did he however also preach about this complex, and at first sight ‘demoralizing’, issue in his sermons to the people? In his previous book (BSCH 59), Anthony Dupont studied the profile of the treatment of gratia in the anti-Pelagian sermones ad populum. In a Preacher of Grace Dupont offers an account of the presence of the theme of grace in Augustine’s sermones not situated in the Pelagian controversy. He first studies sermons preached on important liturgical feasts, which belong to the (non-polemical) pastoral preaching genre. They are distributed throughout the 40 years of Augustine’s preaching activity, and are Christological in content and moralising in intention. Secondly, he examines sermons situated in the Donatist controversy, preceding the anti-Pelagian sermons chronologically and differing from them in terms of content. This research provides a global picture of the presence and treatment of gratia in Augustine’s sermones and clarifies the interaction between context, audience and preaching genre on the one hand, and the theme of grace as a whole on the other. It also contributes to the debate on (dis)continuity in Augustine’s thought on grace.
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