Disciplining Christians : correction and community in Augustine's letters /

Ebbeler, Jennifer.

Disciplining Christians : correction and community in Augustine's letters / Jennifer V. Ebbeler. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xii, 254 p. ; 25 cm. - Oxford studies in late antiquity . - Oxford studies in late antiquity. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-247) and index.

Corrective correspondences -- Augustine's epistolary corpus -- Caveat lector -- Latin prose epistolography -- Interpreting Augustine's correspondence -- A note on terminology -- Rebuke, friendship, and community -- Experiments in epistolary correction -- The honeyed sword : rebuking Jerome -- The Donatists and the limits of the corrective correspondence -- The retrospective correction of Pelagius -- The paper trail.

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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Correspondence.


Discipling (Christianity)--History--To 1500.

BR 1720.A9 / E33 2011