Aaron Fogleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 353184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Fogleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Fogleman |
| SIGNATURE | FOGLEMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2136-8328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religious Reading across Borders and Demographics: A Study of 22 Countries
Previous research on religiosity mainly focuses on religious service attendance and prayer. Less is known about reading and listening to sacred texts (RLST) across cultures. This study examines RLST habits across 22 countries and key demographic groups, using data from 202,898 individuals. The country-specific results are pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis. The prevalence of RLST varied substantially, from 4% in Japan to 70% in Tanzania,…
Friendship as Ecclesial Binding: A Reading of St. Augustine’s Theology of Friendship from His “In Iohannis Euangelium Tractatus.”
Holy Spirit Attachment: Theologizing and Operationalizing the Third Person of the Trinity as the Immediate Divine Attachment Figure
Divine attachment is an important aspect of religious inquiry, particularly when examining the role of sacred relationships in the lives of people of faith. In this article, we provide some conceptual foundations and a template for measuring the unique attachment relationship between Christian believers and the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, and how this bond transcends conventional representations of the sacred. As an immediate di…
Eating for Eternity: The Social Dimensions of Gregory of Nyssa’s Interpretation of the Petition for Daily Bread
Gregory of Nyssa’s interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer’s request for daily bread is difficult to place in the history of the petition’s exegesis. Early interpreters—among them Tertullian, Cyprian, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose, Augustine, and Peter Chrysologus—stressed what is often called, in Henri de Lubac’s phrase, a “spiritual interpretation” of the bread as knowledge, the Eucharist, or Christian doctrine. The majority of modern comment…
Human Grief and Divine Power in Augustine’s In Iohannis euangelium tractatus
Augustine scholarship on grief has mostly focused on Confessiones 4 and 9 and De ciuitate dei 14.9, with a focus on how Augustine legitimates Christian expressions of grief. In this essay, I explore the ways in which his account of grief is inflected Christologically, with a primary focus on In Iohannis euangelium tractatus 49, 52, and 60, where Augustine reflects on a set of Johannine texts that speak of Jesus being “troubled”: John 11:33, 12:27…
Mirrors of Death, Images of God: Likeness and Difference in Gregory of Nyssa’s Social Ethics
Gregory of Nyssa’s critiques of various forms of social injustice hinge on his rigorous theological anthropology. For Gregory, slavery, the accumulation of wealth, and the mistreatment of the poor are evil because they deny the freedom proper to human creatures created according to the divine Image. However, Gregory’s anthropology also contains, we will argue, a distinct account of the ways in which humanity’s difference from God – particularly i…
Augustine's De Catechizandis rudibus and the scholarship of teaching and learning
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a new discipline, with seeds sown by educational theorists of the early twentieth century and blossoming in the 1990s. As an inherently interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field focusing on higher education, SoTL interrogates a range of subjects, encompasses a variety of genres, and uses a swath of methodologies. What is lacking in the literature and its application, however, is sustained eng…
Confitendum et proficiendum: Augustine on the Rule of Faith and the Christian Life
The rule of faith obtained an increasingly flexible usage in the fourth and fifth centuries. In Augustine's various writings on the creed, we can see how he envisioned Christian engagement with the rule as extending beyond baptismal education to involve an ongoing and dynamic process of Christian transformation, particularly as it pertained to the heart. In catechetical sermons on the creed, the focus is on memorizing the creed by heart. In De ag…
The Apologetics of Mystery: The Traditio apostolica and Appeals to Pythagorean Initiation in Josephus and Iamblichus
While the Traditio apostolica ascribed to Hippolytus has primarily been the focus of studies about authorship and dating, this unique work also has much to suggest about rhetorical presentations of catechesis in the early Christian era. Comparing the TA to Josephus's account of the Essenes in the Judean War and Iamblichus's account of Pythagorean initiation in De vita Pythagorica, this essay argues that the TA's presentation of catechesis can be …
Anger, Prayer, and the Transformation of Desire: Augustine's Catechumenate as an Emotion-Shaping Institution
Anger was a topic of significant reflection in antiquity, and it was taken up in new ways in early Christianity. As contemporary historians explore the myriad ways in which emotions were not only described but also presented, scripted, and made normative in historical sources, greater clarity is needed to understand the ways in which institutions were involved in shaping emotions. This essay argues that Augustine of Hippo's catechetical instructi…
“Since Those Days All Things Have Progressed for the Better”: Tradition, Progress, and Creation in Ambrose of Milan
In Ambrose’s apologetic writing against the Roman prefect Symmachus, he makes a surprising argument for Christianity’s superiority over Roman religious practices, arguing that Christianity is in fact a newer and therefore superior form of religion. The whole world has “progressed” and so must religious practices. In the letters to Symmachus, Ambrose’s arguments are ad hoc and apologetic, not constructive. This article seeks to understand better t…
Iconoclasts of the Imagination: Image and Memory in Sixteenth-Century English Catechesis
The evidence of sixteenth-century catechetical texts complicates the prevailing narrative that iconoclasm and Ramism led to a reconfiguring of the art of memory in England. For one, the tradition of the memory arts itself contains contested positions for the role of images in the formation of memory, which is surveyed in the first portion of this paper. In the second section, it is shown where catechesis reveals continuity with classical concepti…
Augustine and Natural Law: Negotiating the Saeculum with Markus, Milbank, and Mathewes
Contemporary Augustinian political theology has encompassed numerous interpretations of Augustine's understanding of the two cities, but a common feature of many is a denial of the presence of natural law in the bishop's thought. This paper surveys three major interpreters of Augustine – Robert Markus, John Milbank, and Charles Mathewes – and their conceptions of the secular and its relation to natural law. It argues first that, despite major div…
Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750-1820
Journal Article Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820 Get access Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820. By Wood Betty. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xvi, 104 pp. $25.00, isbn0-8203-21834.) Aaron Fogleman Aaron Fogleman Northern Illinois UniversityDeKalb, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
The German Connection
Pastors, People, Politics: German Lutherans in Pennsylvania, 1740-1790
Journal Article Pastors, People, Politics: German Lutherans in Pennsylvania, 1740–1790. By Wolfgang Splitter. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1998. xii, 401 pp. Paper, DM 68, ISBN 3-88476287-7.) Get access Aaron Fogleman Aaron Fogleman University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 186–187, https://doi.…
Migrations to the Thirteen British North American Colonies, 1700-1775: New Estimates
This note suggests an alternative method for measuring eighteenth-century migration [to the United States]....The method relies on three sources of information for estimating the volume and timing of eighteenth-century immigration....The first source is the work of ethnic-group historians who have produced plausible estimates of immigration for their respective groups. The second source...is the more qualitative aspects of the ethnic-group histor…
The Peopling of Early America: Two Studies by Bernard Bailyn. A Review Article
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Migrations to the Thirteen British North American Colonies, 1700-1775: New Estimates
This note suggests an alternative method for measuring eighteenth-century migration [to the United States]....The method relies on three sources of information for estimating the volume and timing of eighteenth-century immigration....The first source is the work of ethnic-group historians who have produced plausible estimates of immigration for their respective groups. The second source...is the more qualitative aspects of the ethnic-group histor…
The Peopling of Early America: Two Studies by Bernard Bailyn. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Migrations to the Thirteen British North American Colonies, 1700-1775: New Estimates
This note suggests an alternative method for measuring eighteenth-century migration [to the United States]....The method relies on three sources of information for estimating the volume and timing of eighteenth-century immigration....The first source is the work of ethnic-group historians who have produced plausible estimates of immigration for their respective groups. The second source...is the more qualitative aspects of the ethnic-group histor…
Pastors, People, Politics: German Lutherans in Pennsylvania, 1740-1790
Journal Article Pastors, People, Politics: German Lutherans in Pennsylvania, 1740–1790. By Wolfgang Splitter. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1998. xii, 401 pp. Paper, DM 68, ISBN 3-88476287-7.) Get access Aaron Fogleman Aaron Fogleman University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 186–187, https://doi.…
Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750-1820
Journal Article Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820 Get access Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820. By Wood Betty. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xvi, 104 pp. $25.00, isbn0-8203-21834.) Aaron Fogleman Aaron Fogleman Northern Illinois UniversityDeKalb, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
The German Connection
Iconoclasts of the Imagination: Image and Memory in Sixteenth-Century English Catechesis
The evidence of sixteenth-century catechetical texts complicates the prevailing narrative that iconoclasm and Ramism led to a reconfiguring of the art of memory in England. For one, the tradition of the memory arts itself contains contested positions for the role of images in the formation of memory, which is surveyed in the first portion of this paper. In the second section, it is shown where catechesis reveals continuity with classical concepti…
Augustine and Natural Law: Negotiating the Saeculum with Markus, Milbank, and Mathewes
Contemporary Augustinian political theology has encompassed numerous interpretations of Augustine's understanding of the two cities, but a common feature of many is a denial of the presence of natural law in the bishop's thought. This paper surveys three major interpreters of Augustine – Robert Markus, John Milbank, and Charles Mathewes – and their conceptions of the secular and its relation to natural law. It argues first that, despite major div…
“Since Those Days All Things Have Progressed for the Better”: Tradition, Progress, and Creation in Ambrose of Milan
In Ambrose’s apologetic writing against the Roman prefect Symmachus, he makes a surprising argument for Christianity’s superiority over Roman religious practices, arguing that Christianity is in fact a newer and therefore superior form of religion. The whole world has “progressed” and so must religious practices. In the letters to Symmachus, Ambrose’s arguments are ad hoc and apologetic, not constructive. This article seeks to understand better t…
Confitendum et proficiendum: Augustine on the Rule of Faith and the Christian Life
The rule of faith obtained an increasingly flexible usage in the fourth and fifth centuries. In Augustine's various writings on the creed, we can see how he envisioned Christian engagement with the rule as extending beyond baptismal education to involve an ongoing and dynamic process of Christian transformation, particularly as it pertained to the heart. In catechetical sermons on the creed, the focus is on memorizing the creed by heart. In De ag…
The Apologetics of Mystery: The Traditio apostolica and Appeals to Pythagorean Initiation in Josephus and Iamblichus
While the Traditio apostolica ascribed to Hippolytus has primarily been the focus of studies about authorship and dating, this unique work also has much to suggest about rhetorical presentations of catechesis in the early Christian era. Comparing the TA to Josephus's account of the Essenes in the Judean War and Iamblichus's account of Pythagorean initiation in De vita Pythagorica, this essay argues that the TA's presentation of catechesis can be …
Anger, Prayer, and the Transformation of Desire: Augustine's Catechumenate as an Emotion-Shaping Institution
Anger was a topic of significant reflection in antiquity, and it was taken up in new ways in early Christianity. As contemporary historians explore the myriad ways in which emotions were not only described but also presented, scripted, and made normative in historical sources, greater clarity is needed to understand the ways in which institutions were involved in shaping emotions. This essay argues that Augustine of Hippo's catechetical instructi…
Augustine's De Catechizandis rudibus and the scholarship of teaching and learning
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a new discipline, with seeds sown by educational theorists of the early twentieth century and blossoming in the 1990s. As an inherently interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field focusing on higher education, SoTL interrogates a range of subjects, encompasses a variety of genres, and uses a swath of methodologies. What is lacking in the literature and its application, however, is sustained eng…
Eating for Eternity: The Social Dimensions of Gregory of Nyssa’s Interpretation of the Petition for Daily Bread
Gregory of Nyssa’s interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer’s request for daily bread is difficult to place in the history of the petition’s exegesis. Early interpreters—among them Tertullian, Cyprian, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose, Augustine, and Peter Chrysologus—stressed what is often called, in Henri de Lubac’s phrase, a “spiritual interpretation” of the bread as knowledge, the Eucharist, or Christian doctrine. The majority of modern comment…
Human Grief and Divine Power in Augustine’s In Iohannis euangelium tractatus
Augustine scholarship on grief has mostly focused on Confessiones 4 and 9 and De ciuitate dei 14.9, with a focus on how Augustine legitimates Christian expressions of grief. In this essay, I explore the ways in which his account of grief is inflected Christologically, with a primary focus on In Iohannis euangelium tractatus 49, 52, and 60, where Augustine reflects on a set of Johannine texts that speak of Jesus being “troubled”: John 11:33, 12:27…
Mirrors of Death, Images of God: Likeness and Difference in Gregory of Nyssa’s Social Ethics
Gregory of Nyssa’s critiques of various forms of social injustice hinge on his rigorous theological anthropology. For Gregory, slavery, the accumulation of wealth, and the mistreatment of the poor are evil because they deny the freedom proper to human creatures created according to the divine Image. However, Gregory’s anthropology also contains, we will argue, a distinct account of the ways in which humanity’s difference from God – particularly i…
Friendship as Ecclesial Binding: A Reading of St. Augustine’s Theology of Friendship from His “In Iohannis Euangelium Tractatus.”
Holy Spirit Attachment: Theologizing and Operationalizing the Third Person of the Trinity as the Immediate Divine Attachment Figure
Divine attachment is an important aspect of religious inquiry, particularly when examining the role of sacred relationships in the lives of people of faith. In this article, we provide some conceptual foundations and a template for measuring the unique attachment relationship between Christian believers and the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, and how this bond transcends conventional representations of the sacred. As an immediate di…
Religious Reading across Borders and Demographics: A Study of 22 Countries
Previous research on religiosity mainly focuses on religious service attendance and prayer. Less is known about reading and listening to sacred texts (RLST) across cultures. This study examines RLST habits across 22 countries and key demographic groups, using data from 202,898 individuals. The country-specific results are pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis. The prevalence of RLST varied substantially, from 4% in Japan to 70% in Tanzania,…
Philosophy (11 works) · History (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (5 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Political science (4 works)