Augustine's Punishments
During Augustine's life, government authorities were generally friendly to the Christianity he came to adopt and defend. His correspondence mentions one imperial magistrate in Africa, Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, a pagan vicar of Africa who seemed partial to Donatist Christians whom Augustine c...
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Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Harvard theological review
Έτος: 2016, Τόμος: 109, Τεύχος: 4, Σελίδες: 550-566 |
Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Άγιος 354-430
/ Ποινή <μοτίβο>
/ Κρατική εξουσία
/ Θρησκευτική πολιτική
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Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | CG Χριστιανισμός και Πολιτική ΚΑΒ Εκκλησιαστική Ιστορία 30-500, Πρώιμος Χριστιανισμός NCD Πολιτική Ηθική SΑ Εκκλησιαστικό Δίκαιο |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
Παράλληλη έκδοση: | Μη ηλεκτρονικά
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Σύνοψη: | During Augustine's life, government authorities were generally friendly to the Christianity he came to adopt and defend. His correspondence mentions one imperial magistrate in Africa, Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, a pagan vicar of Africa who seemed partial to Donatist Christians whom Augustine considered secessionists. Otherwise, from the 390s to 430, assorted proconsuls, vicars, and tribunes sent from the imperial chancery and asked to maintain order in North Africa were willing to enforce government edicts against Donatists and pagans. To an extent, Augustine endorsed enforcement. He was troubled by punitive measures that looked excessive to him, yet scholars generally agree with Peter Burnell that Augustine unambiguously approved punitive judgments as an unavoidable necessity. But Burnell and others seem to make too much of it: Augustine's position on punishment supposedly indicates that he posited an essential continuity (rather than emphasized the contrast) between any given state and the celestial or eschatological city of God. |
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ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816016000274 |