%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Not to depart from Christ¡¯: Augustine between ¡®Manichaean¡¯ and ¡®Catholic¡¯ Christianity
%A Jason D. BeDuhn
%J HTS Theological Studies/Teologiese Studies
%D 2013
%I AOSIS OpenJournals
%R 10.4102/hts.v69i1.1355
%X The North African Manichaean community provided the setting in which Augustine reaffirmed a commitment to Christ and to ¡®Christianity¡¯ that he had largely abandoned in the years of his secular education, and it cultivated in him a positive relationship to ¡®religion¡¯ in addition to his personal fondness for ¡®philosophy¡¯. In both ways, his time with the Manichaeans formed an essential background to his later commitment to the ¡®Catholic¡¯ Christian community, and he continued to wrestle with that debt through his endeavours to convince Manichaeans that the Catholic Church could successfully address their earnest ¡®Christian¡¯ spiritual aspirations in a way Manichaean doctrine and practice never could.
%K Augustine
%K Manichaeism
%K Faustus
%K Conversion
%K Heresy
%U http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/article/view/1355