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[A] careful and accessible study...The volume...will be standard reading for students of Augustine and patristic exegesis. --Religious Studies Review Michael Cameron's new book is a brilliant accomplishment in Augustinian studies. It is irreducibly a work of theology even as it is at the same time irreducibly a work of literary, historical, and cultural studies. Isn't that the true scope and range of the significance of Augustine himself? It is a special delight to be able to share this book with students in my classes because it has something for every reader. If Christ meets Augustine everywhere, Michael Cameron has seen to it that Augustine can meet us everywhere too, because he has made Augustine available to such a wide readership and with such intelligence, creativity, and elegance. --John Cavadini, Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame In his comprehensive and highly readable study of Augustine's figurative exegesis, Michael Cameron succeeds admirably in his aim of catching Augustine's hermeneutic 'in the act of rising out of his practice.' While Cameron is fully in control of the history of scholarship on hermeneutical theory and technical terminology (allegory, typology, figuration, and so forth), he never lets theory over-determine his own analysis of Augustine's actual interpretive performance. Cameron provides a compelling, theologically informed reading of Augustine's scriptural exegesis in the years up to 400 CE that is finely attentive to the North African's 'turnings' of mysterious scriptural tropes until the transforming divine love for humanity in Christ is figured forth. --David Dawson, President and Professor of Religion, Earlham College Augustine specialists have long known Michael Cameron's articles and his original dissertation as a vein of gold running through a huge scholarly mountain. That gold has now been mined, purified and shaped into the most im

<br> Michael Cameron's new book is a brilliant accomplishment in Augustinian studies. It is irreducibly a work of theology even as it is at the same time irreducibly a work of literary, historical, and cultural studies. Isn't that the true scope and range of the significance of Augustine himself? It is a special delight to be able to share this book with students in my classes because it has something for every reader. If Christ meets Augustine everywhere, Michael Cameron has seen to it that Augustine can meet us everywhere too, because he has made Augustine available to such a wide readership and with such intelligence, creativity, and elegance. --John Cavadini, Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame<p><br> In his comprehensive and highly readable study of Augustine's figurative exegesis, Michael Cameron succeeds admirably in his aim of catching Augustine's hermeneutic 'in the act of rising out of his practice.' While Cameron is fully in control of the history of scholarship on hermeneutical theory and technical terminology (allegory, typology, figuration, and so forth), he never lets theory over-determine his own analysis of Augustine's actual interpretive performance. Cameron provides a compelling, theologically informed reading of Augustine's scriptural exegesis in the years up to 400 CE that is finely attentive to the North African's 'turnings' of mysterious scriptural tropes until the transforming divine love for humanity in Christ is figured forth. --David Dawson, President and Professor of Religion, Earlham College<p><br> Augustine specialists have long known Michael Cameron's articles and his original dissertation as a vein of gold running through a huge scholarly mountain. That gold has now been mined, purified and shaped into the most important work on scripture in Augustine's thought to be published in a generation. At the heart of this book Cameron shows us Augustine shaping an account of

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Michael Cameron is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Portland in Oregon.

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