Disciplining Christians: correction and community in Augustine's letters
Ebbeler, Jennifer V.
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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. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Rebuke, Friendship, and Community; 2: Experimentsin Epistolary Correction; 3: The Honeyed Sword: Rebuking Jerome; 4: The Donatists and the Limits of the Corrective Correspondence; 5: The Retrospective Correction of Pelagius; Conclusion- The Paper Trail
- ISBN: 978-0-19-537256-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés