Abstract:
The article first sketches some main trends in the recent study of Augustine’s Confessions as
a work aimed at Manichaean readers. It then detects and analyses the Manichaean-inspired
parts in Book X of the Confessions. Augustine’s famous theory of memory seems to be directly
inspired by Manichaean concepts such as found in the Coptic Manichaean Kephalaia. The
article end with a number of conclusions.
Description:
Contribution to ‘Augustine
and Manichaean
Christianity’, the First
South African Symposium
on Augustine of Hippo,
University of Pretoria,
24−26 April 2012. Prof. Dr
Hans van Oort is Professor
Extraordinarius in the
Department of Church
History and Polity of the
Faculty of Theology at
the University of Pretoria,
Pretoria, South Africa.
