Crimen Obicere. Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine's anti-Donatist Correspondence (Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, FKDG Volume 120) - Toczko, Rafal
Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine's Anti-Donatist Correspondence
KORTE INHOUD
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We all know that Augustine was a teacher of rhetoric before he became a highly influential Church leader. We know that he never stopped using rhetoric as a bishop. What we do not always know is what we mean by Augustine's rhetoric. Is it the style, the figures of speech, encrypted in strange names like hendiadys or homoioteleuton? We also know that Augustine wrote letters throughout his ecclesiastical career, some of them highly polemical. The scholars tend to see the ancient correspondence as a part of a celebrated ritual of friendship. But has Augustine really used the letters written in the heat of the Donatist controversy within this cultural context? For decades the works of Augustine have been of interest mostly for Church historians and theologians, and rightly so. It is worth noticing, however, that the people who read or listened to them at the time of their composition were
alumni of rhetorical and law schools, where they had to read Cicero's speeches and learn from rhetorica...
We all know that Augustine was a teacher of rhetoric before he became a highly influential Church leader. We know that he never stopped using rhetoric as a bishop. What we do not always know is what we mean by Augustine's rhetoric. Is it the style, the figures of speech, encrypted in strange names like hendiadys or homoioteleuton? We also know that Augustine wrote letters throughout his ecclesiastical career, some of them highly polemical. The scholars tend to see the ancient correspondence as a part of a celebrated ritual of friendship. But has Augustine really used the letters written in the heat of the Donatist controversy within this cultural context? For decades the works of Augustine have been of interest mostly for Church historians and theologians, and rightly so. It is worth noticing, however, that the people who read or listened to them at the time of their composition were
alumni of rhetorical and law schools, where they had to read Cicero's speeches and learn from rhetorica...
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2020 Uitgever: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Company KG 232 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 3525567227 ISBN-13: 9783525567227Koop dit boek tweedehands
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24.5 x 17 cm. Hardcover. 232 pages. From the series 'Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte', volume 120. Text in English. Original retail price 85.00 euro. Very good/ fine condition, see picture. 560 [Auteur: Toczko, Rafal.] [Uitgever: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht] [Jaar: 2020] [Titel: Crimen Obicere: Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine's Anti-Donatist Correspondence.]
