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Jiang's term for Augustine's writings as priestly training texts that supply repeatable answers to theological and social challenges.
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Rhetorical manual
Jiang's term for Augustine's writings as priestly training texts that supply repeatable answers to theological and social challenges.
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He compares Augustine's writings to Confucian classics: a memorized elite manual whose practical message is that authority is right and subjects should obey.
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"...doing when writing citizenship of God in confessions is creating a rhetorical manual for the priest to basically gaslight the constituencies does that make..."
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"...this is in many ways it's all it is is a rhetorical manual that priests have to memorize if they are to become anointed..."
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"...two competing Bibles. At the same time, you have the priestly manuals. So remember, Judaism at this point, it is a religion focused on..."
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"...Shunzi Bingfa. The art of war by Shunzi. That is a manual on palace intrigue. Right? How to trick other people. It's not a..."
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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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