Does The Canon Need Converting? A Meditation On Augustine’s Soliloquies, Eriugena’s Periphyseon, And The Dialogue With The Religious Past
Willemien Otten
Augustines early work the Soliloquies has played an important role throughout his scholarly career. The aim of this chapter is to ponder why contemporary scholars fixate on and feel such a need define Christian identity. It draws examples from both early-Christian medieval culture, arguably among most religious historical eras in West. Lincolns declaration new birth freedom far distance Carolingian times, but one can ask if, spirit, claim really so different confidence with which Alcuin pledges that school, however primitive, come replace glory Platonic academy. focuses use genre, i.e., dialogue-form he probably encountered through Cicero. Canon do community organic, not prescriptive sense. Keywords: identity; Cicero; academy; canon
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