Disciplining Christians Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters

Name: Disciplining Christians Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters
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ISBN: 9780195372564

ISBN-10: 0195372565

ISBN-13: 9780195372564

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jennifer V. Ebbeler

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Disciplining Christians reconsiders several of Augustine's most well-known letter exchanges, including his famously controversial correspondence with Jerome and his efforts to engage his Donatist rivals in a letter exchange. It reads these letters with close attention to conventional epistolary norms and practices, in an effort to identify innovative features of Augustine's epistolary practice. In particular, it notes and analyzes Augustine's adaptation of the traditionally friendly letter exchange to the correction of perceived error in the Christian community. In transforming the practice of letter exchange into a tool of correction, Augustine draws on both the classical philosophical…

Book details

List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/28/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078



Preface


Introduction


Corresctive Correspondences


Augustine's Epistolary Corpus


Caveat Lector


Latin Prose Epistolography


Interpreting Augustine's Correspondence


A Note on Terminology



Rebuke, Friendship, and Community


Toward a Practice of Corrective Friendship in the Confessions


Scriptual and Philosophical Influences


Epistolary Correction


The Corrective Colloquium Litterarum


Epistolary Friendship Reimagined



Experiments in Epistolary Correction


Nebridius


Maximus of Madauros


Maximinus the Donatist


Jerome


Paulinus of Nola


Augustine, Paulinus, and the Pelagian Controversy


Conclusions



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



The Donatists and the Limits of the Corrective Correspondence


Augustine the Apologist


Epistulae and Inimicos


Salutations


Some Advantages of the Colloquium Litterarum


Silence


Intercepted Letters


Letters and the Law


Coercive Correction


The Aftermath



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