From Pride to Humility, from Impasse to Resolution, from Day to Day: Structure and Argument in Augustine’s Nativity Sermons 195 and 196 with a Division into Five Parts
Augustine divided his Nativity sermons into parts according to a number of structuring principles. Apart from the standard division into four parts, which he proposed in De doctrina christiana 4 (ss. 186 and 187), he also used a division into three parts (ss. 184 and 185; s. 192) and - as this artic...
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| Language: | English |
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2014
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Sacris erudiri
Year: 2014, Volume: 53, Pages: 69-98 |
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| Summary: | Augustine divided his Nativity sermons into parts according to a number of structuring principles. Apart from the standard division into four parts, which he proposed in De doctrina christiana 4 (ss. 186 and 187), he also used a division into three parts (ss. 184 and 185; s. 192) and - as this article demonstrates - a division into five parts (ss. 195 and 196). This latter division is centred around a didactic moment (part 3), for which Augustine makes preparation in part 2 and upon which he looks back in part 4. Parts 2 and 4 are closely linked, the distinction being that the message of part 2 is not yet infl uenced by the didactic moment, while the message of part 4 is. In part 4, it transpires that the impasse presented in part 2 has been resolved. The corpus, consisting of parts 2, 3 and 4, is preceded by an introduction (part 1) and followed by a conclusion (part 5). The diff erent parts can be distinguished from each other on the basis of linguistic characteristics (especially sentence type, use of particles and repetitions of or deviations from the usual constituent order) and on the basis of the use of Scripture (or, in the same manner, of the Creed). So far from being chaotic, the sermons discussed in this article are shown to be very carefully considered and crafted texts. Although they differ as to contents, they are nevertheless composed in the same format. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacris erudiri
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.5.103639 |