Pseudo-Augustinus

by Dorfbauer, Lukas J.

• ISBN13: 9783700170631
• ISBN10: 3700170637
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-31
• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences

Summary

This volume of the CSEL series presents the first critical edition of the following four pseudo-Augustinian works: De ora tione et elemosina (CPPM I 1125); De sobrietate et casti tate (CPPM I 1110); De in carnatione et deitate Christi ad Ianuarium (CPPM II 170); Dialogus quae stionum (CPPM II 151). These texts, which were written in Late Antiquity or in the Early Middle Ages, are transmitted in the manuscripts under the name of Saint Augustine. Their influence on intellectual his tory was considerable, because they were thought to be authentic works of the great Church Father and have therefore been widely read and studied for centuries. These four pseudo-Augustinian texts deal with a variety of quite diffe rent topics (Almsgiving; Drinking; Christology; Exegesis of the book Genesis); they are of in ter est for philologists, theologians and historians for two reasons. Not only does this CSEL volume present the first critical edition of these texts, it also provides their first de tai led study according to modern scientific standards. The origin, the con tent, the sources, and the transmission of these important and partially intriguing texts arecomprehensively discussed in the prefaces.