Resumen de Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition by Jonathan Teubner (review)
From this multi-layered study emerges an astute rendering of Augustine's understanding of prayer, a new approach to the early Augustinian tradition independent of the perennial Pelagian focus, and a theory of tradition that challenges the reigning options in modern theological ethics. Scientia pairs with deprecari inasmuch as it is linked with the humility of Christ's incarnation, the very humility that Christians must take on (induere) if they are to reach the sapientia for which they desire (precari). [...]Teubner concludes his analysis of Augustine's approach to prayer by highlighting not only the tension of desire and patience but also the virtue of hope that sustains the Christian within that life-long tension that is the life of prayer. Teubner believes his "Augustinianism 2" model can account for the "kinematics" of tradition by allowing us to see the way a given writer can "reconstellate" the pieces of a given tradition in order to meet the needs of new cultural contexts and respond to the impulses of multiple traditions held alongside one another.
