Format:
XII, 239 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9789004180345
Series Statement:
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies 70
Content:
Introduction -- Augustine, manichaeism, and Holy Scripture -- Purpose -- Outline of the study -- Relevance -- Adimantus : a manichaean missionary -- Adimantus' identity -- Augustine on Adimantus -- The argument from the Greek abjuration formulae -- The different regions of Adimantus' activity -- The relationship between the names 'Adimantus' and 'Addas -- Adimantus = Pappos? -- Adimantus' biography -- Adimantus' background -- Adimantus as a member of Mani's church -- Adimantus' missionary journeys -- Mani's missionary precepts and Adimantus -- Adimantus' missionary activities -- Provisional conclusions -- Adimantus' disputationes : a reconstruction -- Augustine's acquaintance with the Disputationes -- The years of Augustine's priesthood -- The Manichaean years -- Disputationes refuted in Contra adimantum -- The structure of Contra adimantum -- Double answers -- (parts of) sermons in Contra adimantum -- Contra adimantum : preliminary conclusion -- Adimantus' Disputationes in Contra adimantum -- Disputationes disproved in sermons -- Sermons discussing disputations also refuted in Contra adimantum -- Sermons discussing disputations not mentioned in Contra adimantum -- The Disputationes in other works of Augustine -- Contra faustum -- De genesi adversus manichaeos -- De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim -- Adimantus' Disputationes : a reconstruction of its contents -- Analysis of the Disputationes : its method, contents, and purposes -- Bible texts -- Method and limitations -- The Old Testament quotations -- The New Testament quotations -- Exegetical methods of the Disputationes -- The methodological application of 'Antitheses' -- The literal sense -- Did Adimantus ignore the context? -- Contents of the Disputationes -- Subjects of the Disputationes -- Arguments quoted in full -- The form of the Disputationes
Note:
Teilw. zugl.: Nijmegen, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Diss., 2009
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Manichäismus
;
Biblische Theologie
;
Mission
;
Adimantus Manichaeus 3./4. Jh.
;
Bibel
;
Hermeneutik
;
Augustinus, Aurelius Heiliger 354-430 Contra Adimantum Manichaei discipulum
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
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