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Eighty-three Different Questions - Vol. 70 (Paperback)
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Eighty-three Different Questions - Vol. 70 (Paperback)
Series: Fathers of the Church Series
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In the autumn of A.D. 388, St. Augustine returned from Italy to
northern Africa. Here in his native Thagaste he assembled a
monastic community. When the brethren found their leader Augustine
in a rare moment of leisure, they had no misgivings about putting
questions to him on a variety of topics which he answered from the
store of his vast knowledge. These questions together with the
answers were later collected and assembled in a random order
(ractions ). The English translation presented here affords the
reader a rare opportunity to glimpse some of the topics that
interested members of a community that eventually gave the early
Church four bishops: Alypius of Thagaste, Severus of Milevis,
Profuturus of Citra, and Possidius of Calama. Even though St.
Augustine intended no specific sequence in this collection, four
broad categories in the question and answer literary form are
discernible. One category serves as Christian apologetic, e.g.,
against Arian and Manichaean errors. The second presents Augustine
in the role of exegete of selected passages from both the Old and
New Testaments. The third and fourth categories, containing the
greater number of questions and answers, show Augustine the
philosopher and theologian, a person of towering intellectual
stature in western Christianity and one of the important "Founders
of the Middle Ages." Though formulated between the years A.D. 388
and 395/97 and presented from the viewpoint of Neoplatonists, many
topics, e.g., the cause of evil, sin and freewill, still have great
relevance for the modern reader.
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