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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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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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"Alright? So, there's a lot of controversy over who he is. In his biography, and again remember, if a biography is written by a..."
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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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"...Just as Jesus said. The thing, though, is they're within the church hierarchy. They obey the Pope, and the Cathars didn't obey the Pope...."
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"...a lot of reflection going on. Like, people within the Catholic Church hierarchy understand that Augustine, his theories, his theology are problematic. Okay. And..."
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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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