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<p>Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of <i>conversio</i> owes its dissemination to Augustine's <i>Confessions</i>, and yet, as Jason BeDuhn notes, conversion in Augustine is not the sudden, dramatic, and complete transformation of self we likely remember it to be. Rather, in the <i>Confessions</i> Augustine depicts conversion as a lifelong process, a series of self-discoveries and self-departures. The tale of Augustine is one of conversion, apostasy, and conversion again.<br><br>In this first volume of <i>Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma</i>, BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's decade-long adherence to Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity. Based on his own testimony and contemporaneous sources from and about Manichaeism, the book situates many features of Augustine's young adulthood within his commitment to the sect, while pointing out ways he failed to understand or put into practice key parts of the Manichaean system. It explores Augustine's dissatisfaction with the practice-oriented faith promoted by the Manichaean leader Faustus and the circumstances of heightened intolerance, anti-Manichaean legi

Author

Jason David BeDuhn

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812207422