Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Becoming Manichaean
Chapter 2. Inhabitation
Chapter 3. Indoctrination
Chapter 4. Faustus
Chapter 5. Exile
Chapter 6. The Apostate
Chapter 7. Conversion
Chapter 8. Rationalizing Faith
Chapter 9. A New Man?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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Jason David BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's decade-long adherence to Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity.

About the Author

Jason David BeDuhn is Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University and author of The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual and Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament. Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, 1, is the first part of a projected three-volume examination of Augustine's career-spanning engagement with Manichaeism.

Reviews

"A major contribution to Augustine studies."
*Journal of Religion*

"BeDuhn's prose is, as usual, lucid and engaging. He brings a historical and methodological sophistication to his work that is sorely lacking in many studies of the patristic period. BeDuhn's deep knowledge of primary Manichaean sources and ritual procedures, along with his formidable grasp of his subject, makes him uniquely qualified to tackle the central importance of Manichaeism within a figure that looms so large in western intellectual tradition, but whose story is so often incompletely told."
*Journal of Early Christian Studies*

"What did Augustine see in Manichaeism? Why did he stay so long? . . . BeDuhn's richly explored answers are worth a cover-to-cover read, presenting as he does such treasure culled from every aspect of Augustine's relationship with Manichaeism from his conversion to that sect to his apostasy from it."
*Church History*