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Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2

Author : Jason David BeDuhn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812207859

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By 388 C.E., Augustine had broken with the Manichaeism of his early adulthood and wholeheartedly embraced Nicene Christianity as the tradition with which he would identify and within which he would find meaning. Yet conversion rarely, if ever, represents a clean and total break from the past. As Augustine defined and became a "Catholic" self, he also intently engaged with Manichaeism as a rival religious system. This second volume of Jason David BeDuhn's detailed reconsideration of Augustine's life and letters explores the significance of the fact that these two processes unfolded together. BeDuhn identifies the Manichaean subtext to be found in nearly every work written by Augustine between 388 and 401 and demonstrates Augustine's concern with refuting his former beliefs without alienating the Manichaeans he wished to win over. To achieve these ends, Augustine modified and developed his received Nicene Christian faith, strengthening it where it was vulnerable to Manichaean critique and taking it in new directions where he found room within an orthodox frame of reference to accommodate Manichaean perspectives and concerns. Against this background, BeDuhn is able to shed new light on the complex circumstances and purposes of Augustine's most famous work, The Confessions, as well as his distinctive reading of Paul and his revolutionary concept of grace. Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2 demonstrates the close interplay between Augustine's efforts to work out his own "Catholic" persona and the theological positions associated with his name, between the sometimes dramatic twists and turns of his own personal life and his theoretical thinking.

Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2

Author : Jason BeDuhn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812244946

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A volume in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series.

Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 1

Author : Jason David BeDuhn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812207422

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Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 1 by Jason David BeDuhn Pdf

Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of conversio owes its dissemination to Augustine's Confessions, and yet, as Jason BeDuhn notes, conversion in Augustine is not the sudden, dramatic, and complete transformation of self we likely remember it to be. Rather, in the Confessions Augustine depicts conversion as a lifelong process, a series of self-discoveries and self-departures. The tale of Augustine is one of conversion, apostasy, and conversion again. In this first volume of Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's decade-long adherence to Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity. Based on his own testimony and contemporaneous sources from and about Manichaeism, the book situates many features of Augustine's young adulthood within his commitment to the sect, while pointing out ways he failed to understand or put into practice key parts of the Manichaean system. It explores Augustine's dissatisfaction with the practice-oriented faith promoted by the Manichaean leader Faustus and the circumstances of heightened intolerance, anti-Manichaean legislation, and pressures for social conformity surrounding his apostasy. Seeking a historically circumscribed account of Augustine's subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity, BeDuhn challenges entrenched conceptions of conversion derived in part from Augustine's later idealized account of his own spiritual development. He closely examines Augustine's evolving self-presentation in the year before and following his baptism and argues that the new identity to which he committed himself bore few of the hallmarks of the orthodoxy with which he is historically identified. Both a historical study of the specific case of Augustine and a theoretical reconsideration of the conditions under which conversion occurs, this book explores the role religion has in providing the materials and tools through which self-formation and reformation occurs.

Mani and Augustine

Author : Johannes van Oort
Publisher : Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Stu
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004678247

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Mani and Augustine by Johannes van Oort Pdf

Mani and Augustine: collected essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine gathers in one volume contributions on the gnostic 'apostle of Jesus Christ' Mani and his influence on St. Augustine made by the internationally renowned scholar Johannes van Oort.

Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

Author : Carl G. Vaught
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791484999

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Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions by Carl G. Vaught Pdf

This book continues Carl G. Vaught's thoroughgoing reinterpretation of Augustine's Confessions—one that rejects the view that Augustine is simply a Neoplatonist and argues that he is also a definitively Christian thinker. As a companion volume to the earlier Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions: Books I–VI, it can be read in sequence with or independently of it. This work covers the middle portion of the Confessions, Books VII–IX. Opening in Augustine's youthful maturity, Books VII–IX focus on the three pivotal experiences that transform his life: the Neoplatonic vision that causes him to abandon materialism; his conversion to Christianity that leads him beyond Neoplatonism to a Christian attitude toward the world and his place in it; and the mystical experience he shares with his mother a few days before her death, which points to the importance of the Christian community. Vaught argues that time, space, and eternity intersect to provide a framework in which these three experiences occur and which give Augustine a three-fold access to God.

The Manichean Debate

Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565482470

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The Manichean Debate by Saint Augustine Pdf

Contains eight works of Augustine of Hippo against the Manicheans.

Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West

Author : Johannes van Oort,Otto Wermelinger,Gregor Wurst
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439894

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Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West by Johannes van Oort,Otto Wermelinger,Gregor Wurst Pdf

This volume brings together the selected papers of the Fribourg-Utrecht symposium Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West, organized on behalf of the International Association of Manichaean Studies. It contains a considerable number of contributions by leading authorities on the subject, focussing on both the diffusion of Mani’s religion in the Latin West and its substantial impact upon St. Augustine.

The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004441996

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The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Anonim Pdf

This volume addresses the theological issues which arose when different ancient religious groups within three Abrahamic religions attempted to understand or define their opinion on the Mosaic Torah. The twelve chapters explore various instances of accepting, modifying, ignoring, criticizing, and vilifying the Mosaic Torah.

Anti-Manichaean Writings

Author : Saint Augustine,Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514260077

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Anti-Manichaean Writings by Saint Augustine,Saint Augustine of Hippo Pdf

This collection of the Anti-Manichaean Writings of Saint Augustine has all of the following works: On the Morals of the Catholic Church On the morals of the Manichaeans On Two Souls: Against the Manichaeans Acts or Disputation against Fortunatus the Manichean Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental Reply to Faustus the Manichean Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manicheans

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume IV St. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans, and Against the Donatists

Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781602065970

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume IV St. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans, and Against the Donatists by Philip Schaff Pdf

"The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD marked the beginning of a new era in Christianity. For the first time, doctrines were organized into a single creed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers did most of their writing during and after this important event in Church history. Unlike the previous era of Christian writing, the Nicene and Post-Nicene era is dominated by a few very important and prolific writers. In Volume IV of the 14-volume collected writings of the Nicenes and Post-Nicenes (first published between 1886 and 1889), readers will find Augustines writings defending the Catholic church against the Manichaeans and the Donatists. Manichaeanism was a religion developed in Persia by the prophet Mani. According to this religion, creation has two parts: darkness and light. Light is God and has ten attributes. Opposing this, and coeternal with it, is darkness and its five attributes. Saint Augustine was originally a Manichaean, so his defense of Christianity against this religion comes from a deep understanding of its nature. Donatists were a group of believers who refused to forgive those who had renounced their faith during a time of persecution, which caused a schism in Christianity. In opposing these men, Augustine attempted to mend the rift. Those with an interest in ancient religions will find Augustines writings on Manichaeanism one of the most important historical records of that religions practices."

Expositions of the Psalms 1-32 (Vol. 1)

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781565481404

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Expositions of the Psalms 1-32 (Vol. 1) by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

"As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. In the Book of Psalms are to be found the history of the people of Israel, the theology and spirituality of the Old Covenant, and a treasury of human experience expressed in prayer and poetry. So too does the work of expounding the psalms recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustine's personal life, his theological reflections and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of Hippo."--Publisher's website.

Augustine's Confessions

Author : William E. Mann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742570986

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Augustine's Confessions by William E. Mann Pdf

Unique in all of literature, the Confessions combines frank and profound psychological insight into Augustine's formative years along with sophisticated and beguiling reflections on some of the most important issues in philosophy and theology. The Confessions discloses Augustine's views about the nature of infancy and the acquisition of language, his own sinful adolescence, his early struggle with the problem of evil, his conversion to Christianity, his puzzlement about the capacities of human memory and the nature of time, and his views about creation and biblical interpretation. The essays contained in this volume, by some of the most distinguished recent and contemporary thinkers in the field, insightfully explore these Augustinian themes not only with an eye to historical accuracy but also to gauge the philosophical acumen of Augustine's reflections.

On Genesis

Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813211848

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On Two Souls

Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514267977

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On Two Souls by Saint Augustine of Hippo Pdf

Augustine, the man with upturned eye, with pen in the left hand, and a burning heart in the right (as he is usually represented), is a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, towering like a pyramid above his age, and looking down commandingly upon succeeding centuries. He had a mind uncommonly fertile and deep, bold and soaring; and with it, what is better, a heart full of Christian love and humility. He stands of right by the side of the greatest philosophers of antiquity and of modern times. We meet him alike on the broad highways and the narrow footpaths, on the giddy Alpine heights and in the awful depths of speculation, wherever philosophical thinkers before him or after him have trod. As a theologian he is facile princeps, at least surpassed by no church father, schoolman, or reformer. With royal munificence he scattered ideas in passing, which have set in mighty motion other lands and later times. He combined the creative power of Tertullian with the churchly spirit of Cyprian, the speculative intellect of the Greek church with the practical tact of the Latin. He was a Christian philosopher and a philosophical theologian to the full.