‘Not to depart from Christ’ : Augustine between ‘Manichaean’ and ‘Catholic’ Christianity
Loading...
Date
Authors
BeDuhn, Jason D.
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
AOSIS Open Journals
Abstract
The North African Manichaean community provided the setting in which Augustine reaffirmed
a commitment to Christ and to ‘Christianity’ that he had largely abandoned in the years of his
secular education, and it cultivated in him a positive relationship to ‘religion’ in addition to
his personal fondness for ‘philosophy’. In both ways, his time with the Manichaeans formed
an essential background to his later commitment to the ‘Catholic’ Christian community, and
he continued to wrestle with that debt through his endeavours to convince Manichaeans that
the Catholic Church could successfully address their earnest ‘Christian’ spiritual aspirations
in a way Manichaean doctrine and practice never could.
Description
Contribution to ‘Augustine
and Manichaean
Christianity’, the First
South African Symposium
on Augustine of Hippo,
University of Pretoria, 24−26
April 2012. Dr Jason D.
BeDuhn is participating as
research fellow of Prof. Dr
Hans van Oort, Professor
Extraordinarius, Department
of Church History and Polity
of the Faculty of Theology,
University of Pretoria,
Pretoria, South Africa.
Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online.
Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online.
Keywords
North African Manichaean community, Augustine, Catholic Christian community, Christ
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
BeDuhn, J.D., 2013, ‘“Not to depart from Christ”: Augustine between “Manichaean” and “Catholic” Christianity’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #1355, 8 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v69i1.1355