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16 - Preaching on Heaven and Its Peace

from Part III - Augustine’s Preaching Themes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2025

By
Andrew Hofer
Edited by
Andrew Hofer, OP
Andrew Hofer, OP
Affiliation:
Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC
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Summary

Over the time of his ministry, Augustine came more strongly to see that only in heaven will we find the fullness of peace. This chapter reviews Augustine’s preaching on heaven and its peace first in its ecclesial and liturgical settings. It then takes into consideration objections faced by his people to Christian faith in the resurrection of the dead. Then it reviews the face-to-face vision of God and the communal dimensions of the heavenly Jerusalem where angels and saints experience peace together. The chapter focuses on Augustine’s preaching on the words “amen” and “alleluia” that express our whole activity in heaven’s peace.

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preachingheavenpeaceresurrectionbodyChristJerusalemangelsamenalleluia
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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons , pp. 299 - 316
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Further Reading

Bonner, Gerald. 1994. “Augustine’s Thoughts on This World and Hope for the Next.” Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Supplementary Issue 3, The 1993 Frederick Neumann Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture: 85–103.Google Scholar
Budzik, Stanislaw. 1988. Doctor pacis. Theologie des Friedens bei Augustinus. Innsbrucker theologische Studien 24. Innsbruck: Tyrolia-Verlag.Google Scholar
Coyle, J. Kevin. 1999. “Adapted Discourse: Heaven in Augustine’s City of God and in His Contemporary Preaching.” Augustinian Studies 30, no. 2: 205–219.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Meconi, David V., SJ. 2014. “Heaven and the ecclesia perfecta in Augustine.” In The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, edited by Meconi, David V. and Stump, Eleonore, 251–272. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reisenauer, Augustine M. 2023. Augustine’s Theology of the Resurrection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Scully, Ellen. 2016. “Jerusalem’s Lost Etymology: How Augustine Changed Latin Eschatology.” Vigiliae Christianae 70, no. 1: 1–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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