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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
The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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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..."
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"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..."
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"...drowning. So what they do is they turn each other into hippos. They go into the bottom of the river, and they see who..."
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"...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..."
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"...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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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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