‘Sheep in Wolves' Clothing’: the Letters of Consentius to Augustine

The correspondence of Augustine that Johannes Divjak recently discovered and then edited in CSEL lxxxviii has provided new grist for the scholarly mills of commentary and exegesis. One of these letters (Ep. 11*), sent to Augustine from Consentius, a learned Christian living on one of the Balearic Is...

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Main Author: Dam, Raymond Van (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1986
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1986, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 515-535
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