HOW TO DO THINGS WITH AUGUSTINE. PATRISTICS AND RECEPTION THEORY
Abstract
This article explores in its first part the theoretical conditions for the investigation of the impact or reception of Augustine in later times. This implies a reflection of the nature of the discipline of patristics in general as well as the development of a working definition of reception or reception theory. The second part of the article demonstrates the method of investigation with a concrete example, namely the reception of Augustine in Jostein Gaarder's novel Vita Brevis. A Letter to St Augustine. A Love Story (London 1997; Norwegian original 1996).
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