Disciplining Christians. Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters. - EBBELER, J. V.,
correction and community in Augustine's letters
KORTE INHOUD
The correspondence of Augustine belongs to those parts of his oeuvre that are still but rarely studied in their own right. In her important monograph, Jennifer Ebbeler focuses on those letters by which the bishop of Hippo tried to correct the thought and conduct of his addressees. With this type of letters, Ebbeler claims, Augustine transformed the traditional mores of epistolary exchange (7f): The letters exchanged between members of the educated elite were traditionally conceived of as a colloquium absentium amicorum, a conversation between friends over a distance. Never entirely private, they helped to establish and maintain elite networks. Harsh criticism and the attendant risk of publicly humiliating one's friends were to be avoided in these mutual admiration societies. Augustine, however, set out to conduct his correspondence in a different, Christian key: He wrote letters in order to rebuke and correct and he expected his correspondents to reply and acknowledge their error in written form. With his att...
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2012Uitgever: Oxford University Press254 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0195372565ISBN-13: 9780195372564Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2012. 272p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. [New] [Auteur: EBBELER, J. V.,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2012] [Titel: Disciplining Christians. Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters.]
