RT Article
T1 Augustine on Manichaeism and Charisma
JF Religions
VO 3
IS 3
SP 808
OP 816
A1 Kaufman, Peter Iver 1946-
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1745108874
AB Augustine was suspicious of charismatics’ claims to superior righteousness, which supposedly authorized them to relay truths about creation and redemption. What follows finds the origins of that suspicion in his disenchantment with celebrities on whom Manichees relied, specialists whose impeccable behavior and intellectual virtuosity were taken as signs that they possessed insight into the meaning of Christianity’s sacred texts. Augustine’s struggles for self-identity and with his faith’s intelligibility during the late 370s, 380s, and early 390s led him to prefer that his intermediaries between God and humanity be dead (martyred), rather than alive and charismatic.
K1 Augustine
K1 Faustus
K1 Mani
K1 Manichaeism
K1 arrogance
K1 Charisma
K1 Esotericism
K1 Truth
DO 10.3390/rel3030808