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.