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Ausgabe:

März/2023

Spalte:

194–196

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Hunter, David G., and Jonathan P. Yates [Eds.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Augustine and Tradition. Influences, Contexts, Legacy.

Verlag:

Grand Rapids u. a.: Wm. B. Eerdmans 2021. 501 S. Geb. US$ 80,00. ISBN 9780802876997.

Rezensent:

Matthias Gassman

This volume presents fifteen studies in honor of the eminent American Patrologist J. Patout Burns. Five chapters treat »Augus-tine and the North African Tradition,« four »Augustine and the Philosophical and Literary Tradition,« two »Augustine and the Greek Patristic Tradition,« and four »Augustine and His Latin Contemporaries/Successors.« Despite the broad titles of these parts and of most of the chapters, the volume is something much more dy- namic than just a »handbook« of Augustine’s relationship to Classical and ancient Christian tradition. Some chapters, it is worth noting, do display the comprehensiveness and concision at which the best reference works arrive. Ch. 2, Andrew McGowan’s »Augus-tine and the North African Liturgical Reading Tradition,« can be consulted ...


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