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The rhetorical device of fictitious dialogue (sermocinatio) appears in various uses in Augustine’s sermons. The device consisted in introducing an imaginary interlocutor during the actual delivery of a sermon. Many kinds of such fictitious partners of dialogue could be used, depending on the purpose of the sermocinatio. Augustine also found the device suitable to promote his anti-Donatist agenda in his sermons, and the article analyses a selection of instances in which Augustine stages more or less extensive dialogues with generic and anonymous Donatist opponents. As to be expected, these dialogues are not construed to present a “fair” treatment of the preacher’s opponents, but rather to entertain his congregation by depicting the Donatist opponents as stubborn, stupid and prone to fall rather easily in the dialectic traps set by Augustine. However, the anti-Donatist sermocinationes show that Augustine was keen to address even difficult controversial issues of exegetical or doctrinal nature, in order to train his listeners in responding to and, perhaps, convincing the representatives of the opposing views. Sermocinationes provided Augustine with a convenient instrument such micro-debates, as the case of s. 357 demonstrates.
Augustine’s ideas of sinful desire, including its sexual manifestations, have fueled controversies for centuries. In Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence, Timo Nisula analyses Augustine’s own theological and philosophical concerns in his extensive writings about evil desire (concupiscentia, cupiditas, libido).
Beginning with a terminological survey of the vocabulary of desire, the book demonstrates how the concept of evil desire was tightly linked with Augustine’s fundamental theological views of divine justice, the origin of evil, Christian virtues and grace.
This book offers a comprehensive account of Augustine’s developing views of concupiscence and provides an innovative, in-depth picture of the theological imagination behind disputed ideas of sex, temptation and moral responsibility.
Beginning with a terminological survey of the vocabulary of desire, the book demonstrates how the concept of evil desire was tightly linked with Augustine’s fundamental theological views of divine justice, the origin of evil, Christian virtues and grace.
This book offers a comprehensive account of Augustine’s developing views of concupiscence and provides an innovative, in-depth picture of the theological imagination behind disputed ideas of sex, temptation and moral responsibility.
Augustine’s ideas of sinful desire, including its sexual manifestations, have fueled controversies for centuries. In Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence, Timo Nisula analyses Augustine’s own theological and philosophical concerns in his extensive writings about evil desire (concupiscentia, cupiditas, libido).
Beginning with a terminological survey of the vocabulary of desire, the book demonstrates how the concept of evil desire was tightly linked with Augustine’s fundamental theological views of divine justice, the origin of evil, Christian virtues and grace.
This book offers a comprehensive account of Augustine’s developing views of concupiscence and provides an innovative, in-depth picture of the theological imagination behind disputed ideas of sex, temptation and moral responsibility.
Beginning with a terminological survey of the vocabulary of desire, the book demonstrates how the concept of evil desire was tightly linked with Augustine’s fundamental theological views of divine justice, the origin of evil, Christian virtues and grace.
This book offers a comprehensive account of Augustine’s developing views of concupiscence and provides an innovative, in-depth picture of the theological imagination behind disputed ideas of sex, temptation and moral responsibility.
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