Augustine on Manichaeism and Charisma

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ID3209406
AuthorsPeter Iver Kaufman (0000-0002-6446-1506, University of Richmond, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume3
Issue3
Pages808-816
Publication date2012-09-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel3030808
OpenAlexW2070891441
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Augustine was suspicious of charismatics' claims to superior righteousness, which supposedly authorized them to relay truths about creation and redemption. What follows finds the origins of that suspicion in his disenchantment with celebrities on whom Manichees relied, specialists whose impeccable behavior and intellectual virtuosity were taken as signs that they possessed insight into the meaning of Christianity's sacred texts. Augustine's struggles for self-identity and with his faith's intelligibility during the late 370s, 380s, and early 390s led him to prefer that his intermediaries between God and humanity be dead (martyred), rather than alive and charismatic

Aesthetics · Art · Charisma · Christianity · Disenchantment · Epistemology · Faith · Humanity · Literature · Political science · Righteousness · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

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