6. “A MOTHER TO ALL”. Love and the Institution of Community in Augustine

In Hent de Vries & Nils F. Schott (eds.), Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. pp. 88-109 (2015)
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This discussion _De catechizandis rudibus_ presents Augustine's conception of how in the catechetical back and forth of questions and answers, in pronouncing sermons and listening to the response they elicit, obstacles to love are removed and a community is instituted. Yet there is no guarantee that even the most skillful combination of encouragements and admonishments, of love and fear, will ever succeed, and Augustine is just as aware of the central importance of alertness to the needs of others as he is to the possibility that love is refused and forgiveness is needed.

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