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Catherine Conybeare takes the notion of St Augustine as rigid and dogmatic Father of the Church and turns it on its head. She reads his early works to discover the anti-dogmatic Augustine, who valued changeability and human interconnectedness and deplored social exclusion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conybeare, Catherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
Subjects:
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430.
Augustin, > saint, archevêque de Canterbury, > m. 604?
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430
Christian saints > Biography.
Theology, Doctrinal > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Religion.
Saints chrétiens > Biographies.
Théologie dogmatique > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Theology, Doctrinal > Early church
Christian saints
Dialogen.
Irrationaliteit.
30-600
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Catherine Conybeare takes the notion of St Augustine as rigid and dogmatic Father of the Church and turns it on its head. She reads his early works to discover the anti-dogmatic Augustine, who valued changeability and human interconnectedness and deplored social exclusion.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 223 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and indexes.
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