Disciplining Christians: correction and community in Augustine's letters

Disciplining Christians reconsiders several of Augustine's most well-known letter exchanges with close attention to conventional epistolary norms & practices, in an effort to identify & analyze Augustine's adaptation of the traditionally friendly letter exchange to the correction o...

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Main Author: Ebbeler, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Oxford University Press 2012
In:Year: 2012
Series/Journal:Oxford studies in late antiquity
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430 / Letter
Further subjects:B Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo Correspondence
B Discipling (Christianity) History To 1500
B Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo Correspondence
B Discipling (Christianity) History, To 1500
B Discipling (Christianity) ; History ; To 1500
B Discipling (Christianity) History To 1500
B Augustine ; Saint, Bishop of Hippo ; Correspondence
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Summary:Disciplining Christians reconsiders several of Augustine's most well-known letter exchanges with close attention to conventional epistolary norms & practices, in an effort to identify & analyze Augustine's adaptation of the traditionally friendly letter exchange to the correction of perceived error in the Christian community.
ISBN:0199932123
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372564.001.0001