Ambrose Preaching to Augustine: The Shaping of Faith

P.B. examines 'Confessiones' V-VIII for Ambrose's influence on the young Augustine. According to B., Ambrose helped Augustine to realize that Scripture could be read in a non-Manichean manner, that the problem of evil had another answer than the Manichean explanation of substantial evil, and on the...

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Author:James Patout Burns
Pages:373-386
Language:English
Format:Essay
Topic:- Biography > Relations and Sources > Latin Christian writers > Ambrose / Pseudo-Ambrose > Ambrose
Parent Work: Augustine: 'Second Founder of the Faith'
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Summary:P.B. examines 'Confessiones' V-VIII for Ambrose's influence on the young Augustine. According to B., Ambrose helped Augustine to realize that Scripture could be read in a non-Manichean manner, that the problem of evil had another answer than the Manichean explanation of substantial evil, and on the nature of Christ. Suprisingly, he holds that Ambrose did not influence A. in allegorical exegesis of Scripture and that Ambrose was more a figure of understanding than of faith for A. These latter two these need further textual verification.

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