@inbook{3ff70d6f46a94a8fa7babc2ffd92330c,
title = "Anthropocentric Christology in Augustine's Confessiones XIII: Sensory and Corporeal Aspects of Mystagogy in the Context of the earlier Commentaries on Genesis ",
abstract = "This article investigates the consequences of Augustine{\textquoteright}s Christological anthropology for the perspective of his view on initiation and mystagogy. It offers a close reading of selected texts (Gn. adu. Man., Gn. litt. imp., conf. XIII) on the creation of the human body within the context of Augustine{\textquoteright}s polemic discussion with Manichean anthropology. I will argue that Augustine{\textquoteright}s extensive deliberations on sensorial and corporal manifestations of Christ{\textquoteright}s salvific action and presence serve his anti-Manichean agenda, but were additionally an essential strategy in his rhetorical mystagogy with support of an anthropocentric coloured Christology. ",
keywords = "Augustine, Christology, Church fathers, anthroplogy, Spiritual growth, Mystagogy",
author = "Martin Claes",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "27",
doi = "10.2307/j.ctv2tjd6xw.22",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789042948501",
series = "Annua Nuntia Lovensia",
publisher = "Peeters Publishing",
pages = "385--404",
editor = "N. Vos and {van Geest}, P.",
booktitle = "Early Christian Mystagogy and the Body",
}