Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition: Augustine, Pelagianism, and Early Christian Northumbria (Collected Studies Series, 521) [Hardcover]

Gerald Bonner (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1996 | ISBN-10: 0860785572 | ISBN-13: 978-0860785576

A collection of 19 articles in English on Augustine of Hippo, including an examination of his teaching on deification, often ignored or denied by scholars. The study also includes work on the Pelagian controversy and on the Early Church histories of St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede. The collection represents the author's principal and ecclesiastico-historical concerns during the past 40 years and is the second volume published by Variorum.

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• Hardcover: 316 pages
• Publisher: Variorum (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0860785572
• ISBN-13: 978-0860785576
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,295,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Elegant studies of momentous ideological clashes, February 25, 2008

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This review is from: Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition: Augustine, Pelagianism, and Early Christian Northumbria (Collected Studies Series, 521) (Hardcover)

This volume gives a series of fine studies on major turning points in early church history. Bonner traces the first real schism, the Donatist rebellion in North Africa, with its concerns about the requirements of church membership and the right of Christians to choose their own leaders. He follows the reasoning and concerns which led Rome's newly official state church to a series of painful choices. In response to a rebel, anti-colonial sect, the authorities basically denied the right of Roman subjects to choose or reject their appointed religious leaders. Bonner explores the ensuing series of fierce debates over sin and freedom, which altered the course of religious history for at least 1,500 years. With elegant dispassion he clarifies the clashes of thought and feeling behind the momentous events unfolding from North Africa to Northumbria.

--author of Correcting Jesus