"Vt tecum tamquam mecum audeam conloqui": The Politics of Return
This paper reads the surviving letters written by Augustine during the period between his return to North Africa in 388 and his elevation to the bishopric of Hippo in 395. In doing so, it explores Augustine's complicated relationship with his native land and his new Christian role there, and wi...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Villanova Univ. Press
[2017]
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Augustinian studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 48, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 105-117 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa |
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Augustinus, Aurelius Saint (354-430) Confessiones
B Christians B TRIPOLITANIA B Augustinus, Aurelius Saint (354-430) B Africa B Ambrose Saint, Bishop of Milan 339-397 B AUGUSTINE, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430 B Christianity B Augustinus, Aurelius Saint (354-430) Epistulae B Dioceses |
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| Summary: | This paper reads the surviving letters written by Augustine during the period between his return to North Africa in 388 and his elevation to the bishopric of Hippo in 395. In doing so, it explores Augustine's complicated relationship with his native land and his new Christian role there, and with the career and associates that he has left behind; and it reveals some of the pressures inherent in the notion of "coming home.". |
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| Item Description: | behandelt unter anderem ep. 16; ep. 17; ep. 21; ep. 22; ep. 23; ep. 27; ep. 29 |
| ISSN: | 0094-5323 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Augustinian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/augstudies201771831 |