Augustine's First Monastery: Thagaste or Hippo

L'auteur reprend la thèse de Peter B ROWN (Augustine of Hippo) A biography, Londres, 1967; voir Bull. pour 1967, REAug 14,p. 316-320), selon laquelle Augustin a commencé dès 388 à mener une vie monastique à Thagasse: "the Thagaste community need not have been designated a 'monastery' by Augustine or...

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Author:George P. Lawless
Published: S.n., s.l., 1985
Volume:25
Pages:65-78
Periodical:Augustinianum
Format:Article
Topic:- Biography > Person and Life > Augustin's Monachism > Monachism
Parent Work: P. Agostino Trapè
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:L'auteur reprend la thèse de Peter B ROWN (Augustine of Hippo) A biography, Londres, 1967; voir Bull. pour 1967, REAug 14,p. 316-320), selon laquelle Augustin a commencé dès 388 à mener une vie monastique à Thagasse: "the Thagaste community need not have been designated a 'monastery' by Augustine or anyone else in order to qualify as one"(p.67). "An objection to calling Thagate a monastic community in the strict sense emerges from the fact that the extant literature nowhere designates Augustine's family home as a monastery. (...) In fact, owing to is late start in Latin translations from the Greek, the word monasterium only gradually gained in the West. (...) Augustine's later Commentary on Psalm 92,12 employs monasterium in a sense which is wholly congruent with everything we know about Thagatse, and this fact suggests an indirect inference that the community there may be suitably depicted as monastic"(p.69).