Augustine's Cyprian: Authority in Roman Africa by Matthew Alan Gaumer (review)

• Autores: Geoffrey D. Dunn
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 3, 2018, págs. 504-506
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Given Hubertus Drobner’s challenge in a series of articles in Augustinian Studies nearly two decades ago to the whole enterprise of trying to date Augustine’s homilies, I think that Gaumer needs to do more to establish criteria for assigning dates to Augustine’s homilies. Because Donatism was a longer-running issue for Augustine than scholarship traditionally has recognized, the issue becomes even more convoluted. The answer is that Augustine’s own failures in the 390s in making headway against the Donatists led him to reconsider the value of appeals to authority (ranging from divine authority in Scripture down to the personal authority of prominent individuals). Are ideas first encountered in a sermon like 313E “developments” (in the sense of linear progression) in Augustine’s thinking or merely alternative insights offered by a preacher?