Augustine’s letter ep. 184A, transmitted only in one manuscript, is an
important witness to the complexe situation of Augustine in 417/418. The
paper aims to show how Augustine uses anti-Pelagian and anti-pagan
strategies in order to convince the (otherwise unknown) addressees of
his own theology. For the anti-Pelagian topics a set of standard
arguments is introduced that was developed in the years 416/417 in the
Anti-Pelagian controversy and can be compared with sermons and other
letters. Against the pagans, the letter refers to the first eleven books
of De civitate dei. The paper will raise the question how these two
fields fit each other. In preparation of a philological and historical
commentary the methodological problems of such a commentary will be
discussed.
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