Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West

Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West
Title Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West PDF eBook
Author Johannes van Oort
Publisher BRILL
Pages 350
Release 2021-11-22
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004439897

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This volume brings together the selected papers of the Fribourg-Utrecht symposium Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West, organized on behalf of the International Association of Manichaean Studies. It contains a considerable number of contributions by leading authorities on the subject, focussing on both the diffusion of Mani’s religion in the Latin West and its substantial impact upon St. Augustine.

Augustine and Manichaean Christianity

Augustine and Manichaean Christianity
Title Augustine and Manichaean Christianity PDF eBook
Author Johannes van Oort
Publisher BRILL
Pages 254
Release 2013-08-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004255060

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Based on several newly discovered texts, Augustine and Manichaean Christianity provides groundbreaking discussions of the relationship between the most influential church father of the West and the religion of his formative years. Augustine’s connection with Manichaean Christians was not only intense, but also enduring. This book unearths the essential background of writings such as Augustine’s Confessiones, De ordine and De vera religione, and discloses many a hidden Manichaean source of his powerful concepts of memory and the vision of God. Contributions by, among others, Iain Gardner, Therese Fuhrer, Jason BeDuhn, Majella Franzmann, Josef Lössl, Annemaré Kotzé and Nils Arne Pedersen.

Mani and Augustine

Mani and Augustine
Title Mani and Augustine PDF eBook
Author Johannes van Oort
Publisher BRILL
Pages 630
Release 2020-02-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004417591

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Mani and Augustine: collected essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine gathers in one volume contributions on Manichaean scholarship made by the internationally renowned scholar Johannes van Oort. The first part of the book focuses on the Babylonian prophet Mani (216-277) who styled himself an ‘apostle of Jesus Christ’, on Jewish elements in Manichaeism and on ‘human semen eucharist’, eschatology and imagery of Christ as ‘God’s Right Hand’. The second part of the book concentrates on the question to what extent the former ‘auditor’ Augustine became acquainted with Mani’s gnostic world religion and his canonical writings, and explores to what extent Manichaeism had a lasting impact on the most influential church father of the West.

St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality

St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality
Title St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality PDF eBook
Author Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher CUA Press
Pages 130
Release 1996
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780813208671

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Augustine of Hippo (b. A.D. 354) is considered the single most influential theologian in the history of the Church in the West. Among his many contributions, Augustine developed a sexual ethic that became decisive for all later teachings in the Christian West on issues of marriage, reproduction, and sexuality. Some of the most significant and representative passages on marriage and sexuality from his works are presented here. They recount Augustine's own struggle with sexuality, and stress the important role it played in his conversion to Christianity as well as its influence on his theological principles later in life. The passages in this collection are divided into four chapters which document the chronological development of Augustine's sexual ethic. The first chapter includes passages that pertain to Augustine's own life and illustrate some of his positive and negative models of marital relation. The second chapter recounts Augustine's responses to the Manichean teachings on the body, reproduction, and marriage, mostly from his early years as a Christian. The third chapter contains passages marking Augustine's reaction to the ascetic debates within late fourth-century Latin Christianity. And, finally, the fourth chapter illustrates Augustine's mature sexual and marital ethic, which he elaborated in the midst of--and in reaction to--arguments with Pelagian writers. In a separate introduction, Elizabeth Clark sets the development of Augustine's thought within the context of his own intellectual biography and views it against the background of related issues and movements in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, such as Manichaeism, Jovinianism, and Pelagianism. The selections she presents here offer a comprehensive and uncommonly well-balanced picture of Augustine and his work. St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality is the first in a projected series of volumes on various themes found in the writings of the church fathers. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Elizabeth Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University. She is a past president of the American Academy of Religion and the North American Patristic Society, and a member of the editoral board of the Fathers of the Church series.

On Genesis

On Genesis
Title On Genesis PDF eBook
Author Saint Augustine
Publisher CUA Press
Pages 213
Release 2010-04
Genre Religion
ISBN 0813211840

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In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism

In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism
Title In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism PDF eBook
Author J. van (Johannes) Oort
Publisher BRILL
Pages 769
Release 2011
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004189971

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This volume in honour of Prof. Dr. Johannes van Oort offers a rich variety of in-depth studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and other Gnostic currents, thus reflecting the rich variety of the honorand’s research interests.

Grace and the Will According to Augustine

Grace and the Will According to Augustine
Title Grace and the Will According to Augustine PDF eBook
Author Lenka Karfíková
Publisher BRILL
Pages 443
Release 2012-04-19
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004225331

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Tracing the gradual crystallisation of Augustine’s doctrine on grace in the individual periods of his thinking, this book also shows the unacceptable consequences of Augustine’s teaching as criticised by his Pelagian opponents.