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Augustine and Catholic Christianization - The Catholicization of Roman Africa, 391-408 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Augustine and Catholic Christianization - The Catholicization of Roman Africa, 391-408 (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Patristic Studies, 10
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A religious reformation occurred in the Roman Empire of the fourth
and fifth centuries which scholars often call Christianization.
Examining evidence relevant to Roman Africa of this period, this
book sharpens understanding of this religious revolution. Focusing
on the activities of Augustine and his colleagues from Augustine's
ordination as a priest in 391, to the fall of the Emperor Honorius'
master of soldiers, Stilicho, in 408, it proposes Catholicization
as a term to more precisely characterize the process of change
observed. Augustine and Catholic Christianization argues that at
the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century Augustine
emerged as the key manager in the campaign to Catholicize Roman
Africa by virtue of a comprehensive strategy to persuade or
suppress rivals, which notably included Donatists, Arians,
Manichees, and various kinds of polytheism. Select sermons from 403
and 404 reveal that Augustine's rhetoric was multivalent. It
addressed the populus and the elite, Christians and non-Christians,
Catholics, and Donatists. Key sources examined are selected laws of
the Theodosian Code, the Canons of the African Council of Catholic
Bishops, Augustine's Dolbeau sermons (discovered in 1990), Contra
Cresconium, as well as other sermons, letters, and treatises of
Augustine. This book clarifies our perception of Augustine and
Christianity in the socio-religious landscape of Late Roman Africa
in at least three ways. First, it combines theological
investigation of the sources and development of Augustine's
ecclesiology with sociohistorical tracing of the process of
Catholicization. Second, an account of the evolution of Augustine's
self-understanding as a bishop is given along with the development
of his strategy for Catholicization. Third, Augustine is identified
as resembling modern political "spin-doctors" in that he was a
brilliant spokesperson, but he did not work alone; he was a team
player. In brief, Augustine influenced and was influenced by his
fellow bishops within Catholic circles.
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