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  title info:
    title: Augustine and Catholic Christianization
    sub title: the Catholicization of Roman Africa, 391-408
  name:
    name part: Six-Means, Horace E.
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A religious reformation occurred in the Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries which scholars often call Christianization. Examining evidence relevant to Roman Africa of this period, this book sharpens understanding of this religious revolution. Focusing on the activities of Augustine and his colleagues from Augustine's ordination as a priest in 391, to the fall of the Emperor Honorius master of soldiers, Stilicho, in 408, it proposes Catholicization as a term to more precisely characterize the process of change observed. Augustine and Catholic Christianization argues that at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century Augustine emerged as the key manager in the campaign to Catholicize Roman Africa by virtue of a comprehensive strategy to persuade or suppress rivals, which notably included Donatists, Arians, Manichees, and various kinds of polytheism. Select sermons from 403 and 404 reveal that Augustine's rhetoric was multivalent. It addressed the populus and the elite, Christians and non-Christians, Catholics, and Donatists. Key sources examined are selected laws of the Theodosian Code, the Canons of the African Council of Catholic Bishops, Augustine's Dolbeau sermons (discovered in 1990), Contra Cresconium, as well as other sermons, letters, and treatises of Augustine. This book clarifies our perception of Augustine and Christianity in the socio-religious landscape of Late Roman Africa in at least three ways. First, it combines theological investigation of the sources and development of Augustines ecclesiology with sociohistorical tracing of the process of Catholicization. Second, an account of the evolution of Augustines self-understanding as a bishop is given along with the development of his strategy for Catholicization. Third, Augustine is identified as resembling modern political spin-doctors in that he was a brilliant spokesperson, but he did not work alone; he was a team player. In brief, Augustine influenced and was influenced by his …
  table of contents: Introduction -- Self-understanding -- Social order -- Rhetoric -- Catholicization and the preaching tours of Augustine : August 403-June 404 -- The Edict of Unity and its aftermath -- Conclusion.
  note: Horace E. Six-Means.
  note: Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton Theological University, 2005.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-199) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ff-----
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Saint, Bishop of Hippo
      name part: Augustine
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Catholic Church
    geographic: Africa (Roman province)
  subject:
    geographic: Africa (Roman province)
    topic: Church history
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Saint, Bishop of Hippo
      name part: Augustine
    topic: Sermons
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: BR65.A9 S59 2011
  classification: 270.2092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Patristic studies (Peter Lang Publishing) ; v. 10
  identifier: 9781433108044 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1433108046 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2011007676
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110301
    record change date: 20151202144409.0
    record identifier: in00002731649
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng