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Peter Brown states that was part of a literary circle, characterized—to use Augustine's words—for his "cultivated, polished style, made outstanding by the charm of true Roman eloquence." [ 2 ] "Yet he was in an awkward position," notes Brown.
Peter Brown was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1935, to a Scots-Irish Protestant family. Until 1939, he spent winter and spring each year in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where his father worked as a railway engineer based at Khartoum. For the rest of the year, he would return with his mother to Bray, in County Wicklow, near Dublin. Following the ...
A sympathetic and accessible account of Julian's Pelagian theology can be found in chapter 32 of Peter Brown's Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (1967, 2000). From the year 419 on, Julian and St. Augustine waged a well-matched war of books, pamphlets, letters, and sermons from which we gain a clear idea of their contrasting views.
Peter Brown, in his book The Body and Society, writes that Confessions targeted "those with similar experience to Augustine's own." [ 22 ] Furthermore, with his background in Manichean practices, Augustine had a unique connection to those of the Manichean faith.
Augustine wrote addressed the letter refuting Pelagianism to Albina and her family. [11] Historian Peter Brown suggested that one of the reasons Augustine delayed attacking Pelagius until c.415 was because of the closeness of Albina and her family with him. [12]
According to Peter Brown, "For a sensitive man of the fifth century, Manichaeism, Pelagianism, and the views of Augustine were not as widely separated as we would now see them: they would have appeared to him as points along the great circle of problems raised by the Christian religion". [74]
“Peter and the Wolf,” a ballet show for all ages, returns to the stage by Saint Augustine Ballet on Saturday, May 21, in Lewis Auditorium.
According to Peter Brown, "For a sensitive man of the fifth century, Manichaeism, Pelagianism, and the views of Augustine were not as widely separated as we would now see them: they would have appeared to him as points along the great circle of problems raised by the Christian religion". [73]