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The Irrational Augustine (Oxford Early Christian Studies) by Catherine Conybeare is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Irrational Augustine (Oxford Early Christian Studies) about?
The Irrational Augustine takes the notion of St Augustine as rigid and dogmatic Father of the Church and turns it on its head. Catherine Conybeare reads Augustine's earliest works to discover the anti-dogmatic Augustine, who values changeability and human interconnectedness and deplores social exclusion. The novelty of her book lies in taking seriously the nature of these early works as performances, through which multiple questions can be raised and multiple options explored, both in words and
Who reads The Irrational Augustine (Oxford Early Christian Studies)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Catherine Conybeare
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191532221
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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