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A Religious Reformation Occurred In The Roman Empire Of The Fourth And Fifth Centuries Which Scholars Often Call Christianization. Examining Evidence Relevant To Roman Africa Of This Period, This Book Sharpens Understanding Of This Religious Revolution. Focusing On The Activities Of Augustine And His Colleagues From Augustine's Ordination As A Priest In 391, To The Fall Of The Emperor Honorius Master Of Soldiers, Stilicho, In 408, It Proposes Catholicization As A Term To More Precisely Characterize The Process Of Change Observed. Augustine And Catholic Christianization Argues That At The End Of The Fourth And Beginning Of The Fifth Century Augustine Emerged As The Key Manager In The Campaign To Catholicize Roman Africa By Virtue Of A Comprehensive Strategy To Persuade Or Suppress Rivals, Which Notably Included Donatists, Arians, Manichees, And Various Kinds Of Polytheism. Select Sermons From 403 And 404 Reveal That Augustine's Rhetoric Was Multivalent. It Addressed The Populus And The Elite, Christians And Non-christians, Catholics, And Donatists. Key Sources Examined Are Selected Laws Of The Theodosian Code, The Canons Of The African Council Of Catholic Bishops, Augustine's Dolbea

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Author

Horace E. Six-Means

Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781453907818

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Christian