Projects
The Triune God in the Works of St. Anselm of Canterbury: In Search of a Theology of the Holy Spirit KU Leuven
Augustine's Cyprian: Authority in Roman North Africa. The Appeal to Cyprian in the Donatist and Pelagian Controversies. A Study of the Legitimacy of the Use of Authority in Two Controversies in the Life of Augustine. KU Leuven
Augustinian Pedagogy and its Relevance for the Augustinian Mission in Francophone Africa: Areas and Challenges of Inculturation for the 21st Century KU Leuven
This research project is intended as a quest for an African contextual theology of education inspired by Augustine, such that will portray contemporary relevance of Augustinian pedagogy. This notion of Augustinian pedagogy has at least two meanings: firstly it refers to a set of Augustinian thoughts on education, and secondly to a set of educational principles, essentially systematized in Augustinian circles based on the life, works, and ...
Time in Augustine’s Theology: A Pluri-disciplinary Study of Augustine’s Time Theory KU Leuven
Augustine has reflected on the theme of time throughout his life. He leaves us many descriptions and discussions about time, which are diverse and inconsistent. This research aims to contribute a consensus by working on the text and reconstructing the context. It will collect all time discussions of Augustine and establish a reference network. After this, it will reveal the reception of Augustine’s time theory and its modern interpretations. ...
Between Person and Self: Addressing the Problem of the Spiritual Person in Max Scheler's Material Ethics of Values KU Leuven
This dissertation will attempt to elucidate the relation between Max Scheler's concept of spiritual person and self as developed in his earlier works Formalism in Ethics and On the Eternal in Man by conducting a comparative analysis of their relationship to St. Augustine's doctrine of the emotive self. I will argue that Scheler's personalism is, at its foundation, considerably Augustinian, and that an analysis into St. Augustine's influence ...
Augustine's sermons on the New Testament Letters. Critical edition and contentanalysis from a rhetorical point of view. KU Leuven
Late or Too Late? Old Age in the late Latin Elegies of Maximian (6th century AD). Ghent University
The project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses) that put the motif of old age explicitly on the foreground; a stark contrast with those poems of the classical period (1st c.BC) which are written from the perspective of young men. This combination of genre and discourse is truly original: Maximian subverts the logic of the elegiac ...
In search of a true vita canonica. Normative texts and their manuscripts as alternative witnesses for the emergence of the canonical reform movement (9th-11th century) KU Leuven
Traditionally the history of the religious orders is narrated along the lines of a pattern of rise, decline, and reform. The historiography of the canonical order is no exception. Decades of steady decline are said to have been followed around the middle of the 11th century by a period of reform, culminating in the emergence of a new type of religious – the ‘regular’ canon –, as opposed to the non-reformed ‘secular’ canon. This project ...
In search of a true vita canonica. Normative texts and their manuscripts as alternative witnesses for the emergence of the canonical reform movement (9th-11th century) KU Leuven
Traditionally the history of the religious orders is narrated along the
lines of a pattern of rise, decline, and reform. The historiography of
the canonical order is no exception. Decades of steady decline are
said to have been followed around the middle of the 11th century by
a period of reform, culminating in the emergence of a new type of
religious – the ‘regular’ canon –, as opposed to the non-reformed ...