Augustine's church office in North Africa, treated by Jiang as evidence of elite access and institutional power.
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Bishop of Hippo
Augustine's church office in North Africa, treated by Jiang as evidence of elite access and institutional power.
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Jiang says Augustine's official biography should be doubted because appointment as bishop at 42 indicates access to a powerful family and church hierarchy, not merely individual talent.
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"...church, and at 42, he was appointed to become the bishop of Hippo, which is in northern Africa. And he was in that position..."
"Prolific. Which meant that he wrote a lot of books. It's possible he wrote hundreds of thousands of pages. And his two most famous..."
"...drowning. So what they do is they turn each other into hippos. They go into the bottom of the river, and they see who..."
"...Augustine, he's basically a high leader of the church. He's Bishop of Hippo, okay? Which is in Northern Africa. And he's a problem because..."
"...his religious journey. And at age 42, Augustine becomes the bishop of Hippo. And from then, he begins to construct the idea, the ideology..."
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