LEADER 04563nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910788596403321 005 20210427013748.0 010 $a1-283-89838-1 010 $a0-8122-0742-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207422 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064540 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703087 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11477300 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703087 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10690017 035 $a(PQKB)10394023 035 $a(OCoLC)802048882 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18426 035 $a(DE-B1597)449533 035 $a(OCoLC)948541073 035 $a(OCoLC)979881123 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207422 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441675 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576116 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421088 035 $a(OCoLC)932312636 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441675 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064540 100 $a20090505d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAugustine's Manichaean dilemma$h1$iConversion and apostasy, 373-388 C.E$b[electronic resource] /$fJason David BeDuhn 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $aviii, 402 p 225 1 $aDivinations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4210-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One: Becoming Manichaean --$tChapter Two: Inhabitation --$tChapter Three: Indoctrination --$tChapter Four: Faustus --$tChapter Five: Exile --$tChapter Six: The Apostate --$tChapter Seven: Conversion --$tChapter Eight: Rationalizing Faith --$tChapter Nine: A New Man? --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAugustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of conversion owes its dissemination to Augustine's Confessions, and yet, as Jason BeDuhn notes, conversion in Augustine is not the sudden, dramatic, and complete transformation of self we likely remember it to be. Rather, in the Confessions Augustine depicts conversion as a lifelong process, a series of self-discoveries and self-departures. The tale of Augustine is one of conversion, apostasy, and conversion again. In this first volume of Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's decade-long adherence to Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity. Based on his own testimony and contemporaneous sources from and about Manichaeism, the book situates many features of Augustine's young adulthood within his commitment to the sect, while pointing out ways he failed to understand or put into practice key parts of the Manichaean system. It explores Augustine's dissatisfaction with the practice-oriented faith promoted by the Manichaean leader Faustus and the circumstances of heightened intolerance, anti-Manichaean legislation, and pressures for social conformity surrounding his apostasy. Seeking a historically circumscribed account of Augustine's subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity, BeDuhn challenges entrenched conceptions of conversion derived in part from Augustine's later idealized account of his own spiritual development. He closely examines Augustine's evolving self-presentation in the year before and following his baptism and argues that the new identity to which he committed himself bore few of the hallmarks of the orthodoxy with which he is historically identified. Both a historical study of the specific case of Augustine and a theoretical reconsideration of the conditions under which conversion occurs, this book explores the role religion has in providing the materials and tools through which self-formation and reformation occurs. 410 0$aDivinations. 606 $aConversion$xChristianity 606 $aManichaeism 606 $aApostasy$xChristianity 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aClassics. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aConversion$xChristianity. 615 0$aManichaeism. 615 0$aApostasy$xChristianity. 676 $a270.2092 676 $aB 700 $aBeDuhn$b Jason$0880144 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788596403321 996 $aAugustine's Manichaean dilemma$93690350 997 $aUNINA