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Augustine, Sermon 30, in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, ed. P. Schaff; Vol. 6, rans. R.G. MacMullen (Grand Rapids, MI, 1980 [1887]), p. 352.
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, vol.6
, pp. 352
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See, most recently, Justice Scalia's dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003). Scalia laments that 'the Court has taken sides in the culture war' (p. 18).
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E.g. English Puritanism, the American Great Awakenings; for such movements in the Muslim tradition, which are often tied to apocalyptic social critique, see David Cook, 'Moral Apocalyptic in Islam', Studio Islamica, 86 (1997), pp. 37-69.
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, pp. 37-69
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Spring
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For example, much of the contemporary environmental rhetoric locates the Scientific Revolution (and important figures such as Descartes, Bacon and Hobbes) as the central mechanism responsible for much of the contemporary environmental danger. See Andrew Murphy, 'Antimodernism, Environmentalism, and the Recurrent Rhetoric of Decline', Environmental Ethics, 25 (1) (Spring 2003), pp. 79-98. 'Agent' in this context need not imply a person or group of persons, but has to do with the assignment of causal responsibility for the perceived decline.
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, vol.25
, Issue.1
, pp. 79-98
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One exception to this claim is the sort of apocalyptic social rhetoric that views moral decline as heralding imminent divine judgment. I do not address this sort of critique in this article.
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Habits of the Heart
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, pp. 411-414
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Augustine, City of God, ed. R.W. Dyson (Cambridge, 1998), Bk. 2, ch. 3, p. 53.
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, pp. 53
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Letter 138 Grand Rapids, MI, [1886], ch. 2
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Arnobius of Sicca, Adversus Nationes, trans. George E. McCracken (Westminster, MD, 1959), Bk. 1, ch. 1, p. 58.
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sec. 2, [American reprint of the Edinburgh edition], ed. Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, (Buffalo)
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Cyprian, To Demetrianus, sec. 2, in The Ante-Nicene Fathers [American reprint of the Edinburgh edition], ed. Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Vol. 5 (Buffalo, 1885), p. 458;
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, pp. 458
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Symmachus, Relations 3, sec. 14, in Prefect and Emperor: the Relationes of Symmachus, A.D. 384, trans. R.H. Barrow (Oxford, 1973), p. 45.
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Prefect and Emperor: The Relationes of Symmachus, A.D. 384
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City of God
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, pp. 117-118
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and see Orosius, The Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, Vol. 50 of The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, ed. Roy J. DeFerrari (Washington, DC, 1964). For more on Orosius see below, p. 595.
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, pp. 595
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Lactantius, Divine Institutes, Bk. 5, ch. 20, in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Roberts and Donaldson, Vol. 7, p. 155.
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, pp. 155
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Historia Nuova 2.7
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American Historical Review
, vol.76
, pp. 412-441
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The Works of St. Augustine: A Translation for the Twenty-first Century
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Symmachus, Relatione 3, sec. 3, in Prefect and Emperor, trans. Barrow, pp. 38, 36-7.
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Prefect and Emperor
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Not only were both Christianity and paganism internally plural, they were also mutually influential and formative. For the most recent and most magisterial treatment of these issues see Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000 (Maiden, MA, 2003).
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The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000
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A.H.M. Jones, "The Social Background of the Struggle Between Paganism and Christianity', also in Conflict, ed. Momigliano; Peter Brown, Authority and the Sacred (Cambridge, 1995), ch. 1;
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and Robert A. Markus, 'Tempora Christiana Revisited', in Augustine and his Critics: Essays in Honour of Gerald Bonner, ed. Robert Dodaro and George Lawless (London and New York, 2000).
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Augustine and His Critics: Essays in Honour of Gerald Bonner
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Select Library
, vol.6
, pp. 356
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Terrarum orbi documentum: Augustine, camillus, and learning from history
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History, the Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination
, pp. 59-74
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Paul C. Burns, 'Augustine's Use of Sallust in the City of God: The Role of the Grammatical Tradition', in History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination, ed. Vessey, Pollman and Fitzgerald.
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History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination
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Cambridge
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We know from the Confessions of the important role played by Cicero in initiating Augustine's lifelong search for wisdom. Augustine refers to Cicero's De republica often in the first five books of the City of God. But these citations are less germane to the main focus of this article.
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Burns, 'Roles of Roman Rhetorical exempla in Augustine's City of God', in Studia Patristica, Vol. 38 (Leuven, 2001), p. 40;
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Studia Patristica
, vol.38
, pp. 40
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Prefect and Emperor
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Boston
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John Winthrop, 'Model of Christian Charity', in Winthrop Papers (Boston, 1929-47), Vol. 2, pp. 292-3.
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Winthrop Papers
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, pp. 292-293
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Book I, ch. 3
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Eusebius, Life of Constantine, in Select Library (second series), Vol. 1; Book I, ch. 3, p. 482.
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Select Library (Second Series)
, vol.1
, pp. 482
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T. Mommsen, 'St. Augustine and the Christian Theory of Progress', Journal of the History of Ideas, 12 (1951), pp. 360-2.
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Journal of the History of Ideas
, vol.12
, pp. 360-362
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The uses of decay: History in salvian's de gubernatione dei
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ed. Vessey, Pollman and Fitzgerald
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see also David Lambert, 'The Uses of Decay: History in Salvian's De Gubernatione Dei', in History, the Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination, ed. Vessey, Pollman and Fitzgerald, pp. 115-30.
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History, the Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination
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Let our lives be good; and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times
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'Let our lives be good; and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.' Augustine, Sermon 30, in Select Library, Vol. 6, p. 352.
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Select Library
, vol.6
, pp. 352
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'To a historian, the history of the historiography of Rome is of as great an interest as the history of Rome; the ghost has worked as effectively in the minds of men as the real thing had worked in their lives... [T]he year 410... is a dramatic date; but it is dramatic in the biography of the ghost rather than in the history of its earthly body. It is certainly extremely easy to exaggerate the effect of the three days' looting and violence in the city perpetrated by the Goths' (R.A. Markus, 'The Roman Empire in Early Christian Historiography', The Downside Review, 81 (1963), pp. 340-1).
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, vol.81
, pp. 340-341
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This sort of approach is taken by Derek L. Phillips, in Looking Backward (Princeton, 1993); not to mention the larger tendency of critics on either side to resort to such overblown polemics as 'There is no virtue in the modern world' or 'Perhaps there was virtue back then, but there was slavery as well, and women could not vote!' Neither of these sorts of claims helps, in my view, to navigate through the layers of meaning and discontent that declinist rhetoric has always articulated.
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A. Murphy, ' "One Nation Under God", September 11, and the Chosen Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment in American Public Discourse', Political Theology, 6 (2005), pp. 9-30.
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Political Theology
, vol.6
, pp. 9-30
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