Toczko, Rafal
Crimen Obicere

Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine's anti-Donatist Correspondence.

Augustine, a former renown teacher of rhetoric, came to be known as the great polemicist, celebrated as the champion of orthodoxy against Donatism, Manicheism and Pelagianism. Was it only the quality of his theology and the favour of the imperial court that enabled him to gain such a reputation? This case study of Augustine's anti-Donatist correspondence analyses his use of rhetoric throughout the course of the Donatist controversy to answer this question. It argues that Augustine was consciously recreating the strategies of forensic rhetoric taught in the schools across the Roman empire to achieve his polemical goals. 232 Seiten, gebunden (Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte; Band 120/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2020) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear