Ambivalence Within a 'Totalizing Discourse'
Augustine's Sermons on the Sack of Rome
Eight sermons of Augustine attest to competing interpretations of the sack and to tension between the attitude of Augustine and attitudes in his congregations. Although he deals rhetorically with the views of others by constructing an identity for Christians that is antithetical to that of pagans, n...
Author: | Theodore Sybren De Bruyn |
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Published: |
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1993
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Volume: | 1 |
Pages: | 405-421 |
Periodical: | Journal of Early Christian Studies |
Number: | 4 |
Format: | Article |
Topic: | -
Works
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Augustine writer
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Rhetoric. Dialectic
- Works > Sermones > Ss. per numerum > S. 15A (= Denis 21) - Works > Sermones > Ss. per numerum > S. 25 - Works > Sermones > Ss. per numerum > S. 33A (= Denis 23) - Works > Sermones > Ss. per numerum > S. 81 - Works > Sermones > Ss. per numerum > S. 105 - Works > Sermones > Ss. per numerum > S. 113A (= Denis 24) - Works > Sermones > Ss. per numerum > S. 296 (= Casin I) - Works > Sermones > [Sermons (Temps liturgiques, Fêtes, Titres, ...)] > [De Excidio Urbis] - Doctrine > Social Life > [Sociologie. Cité terrestre. Politique] > [Augustin et la Rome antique] > Rome |
Status: | Active |
Summary: | Eight sermons of Augustine attest to competing interpretations of the sack and to tension between the attitude of Augustine and attitudes in his congregations. Although he deals rhetorically with the views of others by constructing an identity for Christians that is antithetical to that of pagans, nevertheless the persistence of dissent reveals the limits of rhetoric as a medium of Christianization. |
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