Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola

Description

cf. Fr. Alban Butler's biography

discusses St. Jerome's Letter 53 to Paulinus

This literate and accessible study examines the profound impact Paulinus had on Christian thought during a crucial period of its development. The letters of Paulinus and his correspondents portray an early Christian 'web' of shared concepts, intellectual discussion, and group development. Catherine Conybeare examines how the very process of writing and transmitting letters between members of a community helped to bind that community together and to aid the creation of ideas which would continue to reverberate for centuries. Paulinus was key to that group iconic as a model of behavior, as a conversion success story, and as an intellectual contributor able to bridge the old world and the new.

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Review

`This is an extraordinary book which deserves a very wide readership indeed.' Expository Times, 01/08/2001

`stunning concluding chapter' Expository Times, 01/08/2001

`Catherine Conybeare's "Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola" ... offers a substantial and altogether impressive insight into the theology, literature and self-understanding of the church during a crucial period in its formation, seen through the eyes of a figure who was undeniably at its centre and very much representative of his age.' Expository Times, 01/08/2001

About the Author

Catherine Conybeare is at University of Manchester.