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Possidius of Calama: A Study of the North African Episcopate in the Age of Augustine(Oxford Early Christian Studies)

Possidius of Calama: A Study of the North African Episcopate in the Age of Augustine(Oxford Early Christian Studies)


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Possidius, the bishop of Calama, was a life-long friend of St. Augustine's and best known for writing a biography of the bishop of Hippo, the Vita Augustini. Hermanowicz analyzes both the biography and the legally-oriented career of Possidius to illustrate how active Augustine's colleagues were in soliciting imperial support against their religious competitors and to show just how often Augustine's close friends disagreed with him on important matters of law, coercion and diplomacy. It is still widely asserted by scholars that St. Augustine dominated the theological landscape of North Africa, but this engaging study demonstrates how often he was, in fact, singular and isolated in his beliefs.

Table of Contents:
Introduction The Vita Augustini: Augustine's Life and Text According to Possidius 1: The Vita Augustini 2: The Literary Possidius Possidius and the Legal Activities of the North African Episcopate 3: Donatists, Catholics and Appeals to the Law: 392-404 4: Donatist Strategy and Catholic Response: 403-405 5: Possidius Goes to Court: 408-409 6: The Conference of 411 Conclusion Bibliography

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This book is of great significance for Augustinian studies and the mould in qhich Augustine's works were recast from the fifth century onwards. clearly the result of years of solid research ... offers a thorough thematic introduction into the Vita Augustini and supplement the existing Donatism study with a meritorious overview of this controversy from the standpoint of Possidius. Frykenberg's amazing breadth of knowledge brings to life the complexity of India's Christian history ... I heartily recommend this book. This is the best single-volume history of Christianity in India written so far. It is both genuinely Indo-centric and genuinely ecunemical. learned and intellectually demanding ... Hermanowicz has written a book which reminds church historians of the influence which legal thinking has exercised on Christian practice, particularly in the Latin West.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199236350
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 270
  • Series Title: Oxford Early Christian Studies
  • Sub Title: A Study of the North African Episcopate in the Age of Augustine
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199236356
  • Publisher Date: 06 Mar 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 568 gr


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