Going to Church with Augustine
Session Description
What would it have been like to worship with Augustine in Hippo? Even more specifically, what would it have been like to experience him as a preacher? In this workshop we will reenact some of the tangible and audible elements of an Augustinian sermon, analyze a short specimen of Augustinian preaching, and reflect on what this experience of “going to church with Augustine” reveals about Augustine’s context, his larger theology of preaching and worship, and our own contemporary assumptions and practices.
Going to Church with Augustine
What would it have been like to worship with Augustine in Hippo? Even more specifically, what would it have been like to experience him as a preacher? In this workshop we will reenact some of the tangible and audible elements of an Augustinian sermon, analyze a short specimen of Augustinian preaching, and reflect on what this experience of “going to church with Augustine” reveals about Augustine’s context, his larger theology of preaching and worship, and our own contemporary assumptions and practices.