Disciplining Christians : correction and community in Augustine's letters / Jennifer V. Ebbeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebbeler, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in late antiquity.

Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Correspondence--Criticism and interpretation.

Augustine.

Discipling (Christianity)--History--To 1500.

Discipling (Christianity).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Disciplining Christians reconsiders several of Augustine's most well-known letter exchanges. It reads these correspondences with close attention to conventional epistolary norms and practices, in an effort to identify and analyze Augustine's adaptation of the traditionally friendly letter exchange to the correction of perceived error in the Christian community.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Corrective Correspondences; Augustine's Epistolary Corpus; Caveat Lector; Latin Prose Epistolography; Interpreting Augustine's Correspondence; A Note on Terminology; 1. Rebuke, Friendship, and Community; Toward a Practice of Corrective Friendship in the Confessions; Scriptural and Philosophical Influences; Epistolary Correction; The Corrective Colloquium Litterarum; Epistolary Friendship Reimagined; 2. Experiments in Epistolary Correction; Nebridius; Maximus of Madauros; Maximinus the Donatist; Jerome; Paulinus of Nola

Augustine, Paulinus, and the Pelagian ControversyConclusions; 3. The Honeyed Sword: Rebuking Jerome; Paul's Rebuke of Peter in Galatians 2:11-14; Jerome and Augustine on Galatians 2:11-14; Cultivating Friendship; Another Attempt at a Corrective Correspondence; Jerome's Silence; Letter-to-Letter Combat; A Reliable Messenger; Replies; Laying Down the Honeyed Sword; Triangulation; Jerome's Apologia contra Augustinum; Reviving the Corrective Correspondence; Caritas Maior; Conclusions; Postscript: Augustine and Jerome, 415-419; 4. The Donatists and the Limits of the Corrective Correspondence

Augustine the ApologistEpistulae ad Inimicos; Salutations; Some Advantages of the Colloquium Litterarum; Silence; Intercepted Letters; Letters and the Law; Coercive Correction; The Aftermath; 5. The Retrospective Correction of Pelagius; Foreshadowings; The Correspondence of Augustine and Pelagius; 414-415: Augustine Reads De Natura; Orosius the Heresy Hunter; Damage Control; Revisions; Exposing the Wound; Conclusions; Postscript; Conclusion: The Paper Trail; Bibliography; Index; A; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-970698-0